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Message: <blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1831008" data-attributes="member: 67742">If the Mac has more than one option to boot from, holding the "c" key down will tell it to boot from the CD, not from an internal drive if that had been an option.But like I said -  I have never used Panther and I have not installed anything using a D/DVD since the Tiger days.I'm sure someone more knowledgeable on this than me will pipe up later tonight.Or do a bit more reading on the net.Do you have an external CD/DVD drive you could hook up?I'm not even sure you can boot Panther (being an old OS) that way, but again, easy to check on the net.But once you get it booted up and it works, you should probably max out the RAM to the 1.25GB to be able to do anything with this Mac.</blockquote>