No Mac OS CD - What Now?

[Andrew McVinnie]

Hmmm, now that's an interesting problem.

You should be able to use whatever Mac OS CD you can get, even as old 
as 7.5, to partition the Hard drive.  

Actually, if you are just going to use the 7500 for YDL, you dont 
really NEED Mac OS on it at all if you don't want it.  I think you 
can startup from the YDL CD and delete all the partitions and just 
make a nice large Linux Partition.  But you'd have to try, I've never 
done that.

The partitioning thing in the YDL setup is written under the 
assumption that you are adding YDL to your current computer, hence 
you would want OS 9 and/or Mac OS X.  I don't see why you would need 
a Mac OS on the machine at all, since finding a OS CD is a challenge.

As for disk images available from Apple, I think only OS 7.5 is 
freely downloadable at this point.  However, making a bootable CD 
from the 7.5 Disk Images might prove a little trickier.

Good Luck
Andrew McVinnie

>I salvaged an old 7500/100 running OS 8.5 for the sole purpose of running
>Linux. I don't have the Mac OS Installation CD. What can I do? Is there some
>place where I can download the CD image of OS 8.5?
>
>Also, the "Installation Guide" says to install OS 9 on one of the
>partitions -- can I use OS 8.5 instead?  At this point, I don't know where
>I'm going to get my hands on either OS 8.5 or OS 9 CD. I just thought the
>older one (8.5) might be easier to obtain freely.
>
>Thanks for any ideas/suggestions,
>
>-John
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