hello ..
i need your help , and thanks for any response.

so i bought an old mac from a friend ..
i dont really know what type of macintosh it is but i know it is a bit
old
theres a monitor and cdrom, floppy on the computer.. in the back side
is written "1994" .. everything is ok till yesterday i can load
everything , i dont know anything about macintosh .. and i was trying
to install debian linux on it , and after a bad disk partitionning, on
reboot there is nothing else a small diskette on the middle of the
screen with a "?" hitin ...

so my problem is , how could i reinstall , and wish os ( i think 7.1
but not sure).. thabnks for helping me
this could maybe help :
i have 4 macintosh formatted diskettes
1 pc with floppy drive ( with transmac for mac diskettes) and cdrom
burner

everything i want is to reinstall the mac ! thanks you for your help

sam

In article <f4627fef.0311270517.747ebba@posting.google.com> ,
sam@hobeica.com (samir hobeica) wrote:

> hello ..
> i need your help , and thanks for any response.
>
> so i bought an old mac from a friend ..
> i dont really know what type of macintosh it is but i know it is a bit
> old
> theres a monitor and cdrom, floppy on the computer.. in the back side
> is written "1994" .. everything is ok till yesterday i can load
> everything , i dont know anything about macintosh .. and i was trying
> to install debian linux on it , and after a bad disk partitionning, on
> reboot there is nothing else a small diskette on the middle of the
> screen with a "?" hitin ...
>
> so my problem is , how could i reinstall , and wish os ( i think 7.1
> but not sure).. thabnks for helping me
> this could maybe help :
> i have 4 macintosh formatted diskettes
> 1 pc with floppy drive ( with transmac for mac diskettes) and cdrom
> burner
>
> everything i want is to reinstall the mac ! thanks you for your help
>

While various older versions of the Mac OS (up to 7.5.5) are available
legally for download (see: http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egamba2/ ) you're
going to have problems if you try to download onto your PC. While the
data will tranfer to your Mac floppies, the file-type information won't,
and as a result, your setup program won't execute, etc.

Best bets:

1) find a friend with a Mac and Internet access, and download the files
on your friend's Mac

2) beg, borrow, or buy an older Mac OS system CDROM disc... in most
cases you can boot to the CD, and install from there. Note however, that
the system CDs that came with many Mac models are hardware-specific...
unless you have the same model Mac, they won't work. The CDs that were
sold at the general retail level will work on all hardware supported (at
that time).

So look carefully over the case, and try to find the model... it should
be marked somewhere!

on
> reboot there is nothing else a small diskette on the middle of the
> screen with a "?" hitin ...
>

This means that the computer cannot find a copy of the operating
system.


There are system images of MacOS around that you can put on a floppy.
It is easiest if you can build the floppy on a Mac, but I have seen
hints that the build can be done on a PC.

This site indicates how you can create a Boot floppy under windows. I
believe that it is for a 68k system.
http://mes.emuunlim.com/tips/bootdisk.htm

Another page on create a Mac boot floppy.
http://www.headgap.com/~macstar/bootdisc1.html


Robert