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I looked, it's not Upgrade dude.

IT'S BOOTING TO THE HARD DISK! IT'S BOOTING TO THE HARD DISK! ( Yay!! > :D DAMN IT! I FORGOT TO DISABLE MACINTALK! ( WAIT WAIT STOP TOUCHING ME > :O

While the Mac starts up, I can tell you that 1. I cannot boot from the 7.5 disk 2. I cannot boot from the 9.x disk and then take it out and put in the 7.5 disk to start installing (won't even give me a 'feed me' loop, as in 'Please put in the disk x', then 'Please put in the disk y' looping)...

Okay, it turns out that System 7.5 CD does not boot. ( AARGH MY [C] KEY > :'( UUUGHHHHHHH ( UUUUGGHHHHHH > xx( GODDAMNIT ( H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H > xx(   *clicks power strip switch off and on* *BING* ( vvvvVVVVV > :scrambled:

OK! BIG UPDATE It was because I was trying to install a fresh 9.1 instead of 9.0. It installed fine (no fatal errors), but the problem is that the Mac doesn't want to boot to the hard disk. I'll try System 7.5.5 now, I'll also see if the 7.5 or 8.x disk is even bootable. As far as I know...

I bought it from Craigslist and when I turned it on it was running Mac OS 9.1!

O.K. I have confirmed that it IS a 638CD that CAN run 9.1 somehow.

OMG let me look @ my model # again...

I said 'reinstall'. Ovvy. I meant it was ALREADY installed.

I wanted to reinstall Mac OS 9.1 to my Performa 638CD. So, I downloaded it and installed. Then I realised that I downloaded and installed Mac OS 7.1.  :I   Now I get the following error message: (Approximation using MS Paint, It's a pysical machine... :O ) The floppy disk drive is broken...