No Mac OS CD - What Now?

[Andrew McVinnie]

Re-paritioning the Hard Drive will most definitely erase the current 
hard drive and everything on it and replace it with 2 blank hard 
drives.  If your current setup, the hard drive with OS 8.5 on it, is 
important to you, such as your files and work and all that, then you 
probably do not want to partition the drive with out first backing up 
your data in some way.

Andrew McVinnie

>> > I believe 7.5x is the latest free download from the Apple site. And
>> > it takes a couple of "updates" to get from 7.5.1 to 7.5.5.
>> >
>> > Does the machine not have an OS on it now? Maybe you can copy the
>> > System Folder onto something and then back onto its own small
>> > partition if the drive is not partitioned yet?
>>
>> He should be able to use less than a minimal install. All he needs is the
>> System and Finder files, an extension folder with the BootX extension, and
>a
>> folder with any Kernels he may want in it (he'll have to have at least
>one).
>>
>> I'm no Linux guru, but I've installed it about 1/2 dozen times or so, then
>> failed to do much with it. :)
>>
>> Bert
>
>Bert et al.:
>
>I'd love to have a chance to do nothing with my Mac!  But I'm not sure what
>you mean ... If I download System 7.5 Installation floppies from Apple (19
>of them!), then will I be able to partition the HD into 2 partitions, and
>put System 7.5 into one of the partitions?  And then be able to install
>BootX?
>
>My Mac already has OS8.5 on it (but I don't have the install CD), and it has
>only one HD. I'd like to avoid having to buy an OS install CD or another HD.
>After all... I might wind up doing nothing with this!  :)
>
>Thanks,
>
>-John
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