I'm trying to reininstall mini mac server

Hi
I'm trying to reinstall my mini mac server after repair, disk swop.
When holding down the option key at startup i get an option to select wireless network.
That i can do, but nothing else! Where do i go from there?
Jens

Your options depend on the particular Mac Mini, spare hardware, what backups you have, etc.
If your Mac Mini is new enough to have Internet recovery, you can use that.  Here is a discussion of Lion and Mountain Lion Recovery (HT4718)
If your Mac Mini is older, you'll have to install from whatever external media you have available, whether that's an old (bootable) backup or a recovery partition on an external disk, or the installer DVD that arrived with the Mac Mini, or one of the US$20 Snow Leopard DVDs that are available from Apple. 
If you have a second Mac that can run the same version as the Mac Mini, you can create the recovery partition via that Mac, or you can cable to the Mac Mini via Target Disk Mode (FireWire or Thunderbolt — that latter link has some other useful information), making sure you don't clobber the disk(s) originally and normally connected to that second Mac.

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