I hate to be a bother but I recentlu bought a pmac 6100/66 at a garage saleand was assured that it was in working order. What did I have to risk, $10.? Anyway, I'm a died in the wool IBM type but wanted to get to know the dreaded mac. Anyway (again) when I switch the power on I get the diskette question mark, Fine. A friend lent me a Performa system CD and assured me that it would read and boot my computer. Guess what? Right.I get the smiley face, Welcome to macintosh... Bomb. Sorry a system error occurred...unimplemented trap. It goes on to say something about the shift key and turning off extensions. Needless to say that did not work either. Unimplemented trap?? I put my problem up on another Q/A BB. and got some sound advice from well meaning and knowledgeable people.. (and I always thought that IBM was the complicated one and Mac is for morons like me). Anyway (3) the gist of their advice was to use a 'disk tools disk', a utilities disk and some other diskettes which, it seems you get with your mac when you buy it. I did not. I am sans disks and don't know where to obtain them. They seem to be considered so basic that noone knows where to get them except borrow them from your friendly mac owner. I have no friendly mac owners. The only friends I have are IBM and the one mac friend lent me the Performa cd nad that did not work. Can anyone help me? I believe the OS is 7.5 but am not sure. On IBM's you can make a startup disk from any windows program. Is this possible for Mac? I am not one for patience. If anyone wants a mac it's going sailing,,, out my window!!!!!!!

Assuming the seller was telling the truth, and depending on the model of Performa, this should work.... Try this: 1. put the CD in and reboot with COMMAND, OPTION, C, and D held down. With luck, you'll boot from the CD but not the hard drive. 2. On the CD, find "Drive Setup" and run it. It should show you the CD and the hard drive. Select the hard drive and choose "Update driver" from one of the menus. If all else fails, you'll have to come back here and reformat the hard drive. 3. For now, quit Drive Setup and run Disk First Aid. If the drive appears, select it and click REPAIR to check your hard drive and fix any errors. 4. Reboot with the C key held down to boot from the CD again, and if you could not check the hard drive before, do it now. 5. Finally, run the installer on the CD to install the system SW. 6. Reboot. If it doesn't boot, repeat 4 and 5 but this time click COMMAND-OPTION-K and select "Clean Install."

To MacWiz My thanks for your reply. I shall try your suggestions and let you know. One thing: I think that the computer IS booting from the CD, the smiley face and welcome screen is from the CD. Then it crashes. Without the CD in the drive I get the question mark floppy.

I don't know but can you tell me where I can find a macintosh boot disk? thank-you Bobby Robertson