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Very interesting DeltaMac. I extremely appreciate your reply. Looks like I will have to call apple and see about ordering some replacement discs. Hand me down computers hold ture to the saying; nothing is ever really free.

So I figured out I do need the Mac OS install discs, but my discs are for Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3.9 is installed on the machine. The eMac originally came with 9.2.2. I bought a firewire cd rom to see if I could get that to boot the mac os x disc but it wouldn't.

I am having trouble getting my emac to boot from an external CD rom with Mac OS X in it. When I boot up the machine I hold down option to get the list of bootable volumes. Just the internal drive shows up. Once the machine is booted, I can access the cdrom, just not when booting.

Hello! I have a 1.2ghz eMac that I am trying to completely restore. I have both the Mac OS X discs (2) and the Software Restore Discs (3). It is my understanding I have to use the Software Restore discs to restore all the Apple applications and Classic 9, then use the Mac OS X discs to...