Linux box sharing Mac OS Install to an iMac?

I have an iMac with a dead CDRom drive and a linux box with a working
CDROM Drive. is it posible to share the cdrom drive, with the MacOS 9
CDRom to the Mac? i just got the mac a few weeks ago and need to chear
it because who ever had it before me had loads of weird stuff on it
and i want a fresh start. has anyone tried this before and if so does
it work? also, is there a difference with installing MacOS 9 and X?
could i do the same install with OSX? ill be getitng a copy of it in a
few weeks and just want to know.
Thanks in advance.
Lotas Smartman
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In message <(E-Mail Removed) >, Lotas Smartman
wrote:

> I have an iMac with a dead CDRom drive and a linux box with a working
> CDROM Drive. is it posible to share the cdrom drive, with the MacOS 9
> CDRom to the Mac? i just got the mac a few weeks ago and need to chear
> it because who ever had it before me had loads of weird stuff on it
> and i want a fresh start. has anyone tried this before and if so does
> it work? also, is there a difference with installing MacOS 9 and X?
> could i do the same install with OSX? ill be getitng a copy of it in a
> few weeks and just want to know.
>
I found it easier when installing Linux on a CDROM-less PC (having failed to
get the boot disks to recognise the old network cards in the machine) to
borrow a drive from another machine, install Linux and then put the drive
back in its original machine. The same may well be true with the Mac,
assuming it doesn't do some dodgy handshake with the drive to check that
it's a real Mac one.

Dave
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