Apple 8500 Starting up from a CD-ROM disc, Starting up from a floppy disk, Turn your computer on

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Starting up from a CD-ROM disc

To initialize, test, or repair a hard disk, or to install system software on a hard disk, you need to start up your computer from another disk. If your computer has a CD-ROM drive, you can start up your computer using the CD-ROM disc containing system software that came with the computer.

To start up the computer using the CD-ROM disc, follow these steps:

Turn your computer on.

When you see the desktop on your screen, press the Open/Close button on your CD-ROM drive, and insert the CD-ROM disc containing system software into the drive.

Turn your computer off.

The CD-ROM disc will remain in the CD-ROM drive.

Hold down the “c” key on your keyboard and restart your computer.

Continue to hold down the key until you see the “Welcome to Macintosh” message.

Starting up from a floppy disk

To initialize, test, or repair a hard disk, or to install system software or CD-ROM software on a hard disk, you need to start up your computer from another disk. If you don’t have a built-in CD-ROM drive, you can start up the computer using one of these floppy disks—Disk Tools or System Backup Disk 1—that came with your computer.

To start up your computer using a floppy disk, follow these steps:

1Shut down your computer.

2Insert the floppy disk into the disk drive.

If you want to initialize, test, or repair your hard disk, use the Disk Tools disk to start up your computer. If you want to install system software, use the System Backup Disk 1 disk.

3Turn on the computer.

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