You can drag a working system 9 folder to your hard drive from another then do the startup disk sys prefs. Also, holding down the OPTION key at bootup will present you with system startup choices including the one on the CD if it works. Sounds like the one on the CD is not a working version. -- Taylor Barcroft http://www.blogger.com/profile/11159903 New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Bob Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > Did that, no luck. It still came back with the flashing "?" on the > disk. > > Thanks, > Bob