Apple Macintosh Performa 5400 Series - Manual (Page 94)

93 Installing or Reinstalling Your Software
If you see a blinking question mark on the screen
The blinking question mark means that your Macintosh is unable to find
usable system software on your hard disk.
Note: If you don’t see a blinking question mark, go to “If You See the
Macintosh Desktop.”
1 Press the Open/Close button of your CD-ROM drive to open the CD-ROM tray.
2 Place the Macintosh Performa CD: Performa Software in the tray with the disc label
facing up.
Make sure the disc is lying flat in the tray.
3 Push the tray in, or press the Open/Close button, to close the tray.
Your Macintosh recognizes the CD as a startup disk, and in a few seconds the
desktop below appears.
Now continue with the steps in “Reinstalling Your System Software” or
“Reinstalling All Your Original Software,” later in this chapter.
Your screen
may look slightly
different from
this one.