PowerBook 5300cs OS install

Please, help me. I'm new to Mac and I don't know how to install an OS (7.5.3 and an update 7.5.5) on my Mac. I don't have a CD reader so it has to be that OS until I buy or borrow a CD reader. When I turn it on, I hear a music out of a built-in speaker(I think it's like an introduction) and than on screen it shows an icon of a diskette and a question mark. I inserted a Network Access diskette, but it says that it needs a different version (or something like that) and a restart button. Maybe it'll help if I tell you that it has a QWERTZ keyboard? Please help me as soon as you can because I don't have money to buy a newer system than this (I payed it 15 euros).
Thank you in forward and I hope you can help.
Stevan

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The music from the built-in speaker is the startup sound. The question-mark indicates that the computer cannot locate a valid system folder.
First of all, you need a startup floppy (the Network Access disk is plain System 7.5 and will not,as you have discovered already, work in the PowerBook 5300cs). You can use the Disk Tools PPC here instead. However, there is one difficulty involved. The downloaded .bin file must be kept intact until on a Mac, where it is to be decoded by StuffIt Expander. The contained disk image (.img) is used to create a sector-copied bootable floppy. Disk Copy 6.3.3 here will be needed. Use the Make a Floppy command in the Utilities menu of Disk Copy 6.3.3. All this has to be done on another Mac with a floppy drive.
Once you have a working startup floppy, boot the PB 5300cs from it. Then launch Drive Setup. Check Zero all data under Initialization Options in the Functions menu, and choose to initialise the hard disk (this will erase anything/everything on the hard disk). When ready, it is possible to drag-copy the system folder of the tools floppy to the hard disk; that will provide you with a temporary system and free the floppy drive for subsequent file transfers.
You have obviously found the System 7.5.3 download at the Apple site. This is seventeen to twenty .bin files, depending upon language version. Each .bin file is small enough to fit onto a 1.44 MB floppy. Since the temporary system on the 5300cs is not able to recognise PC floppies, use Macintosh-(re)formatted diskettes for this purpose. Move all .bin files to the 5300cs hard disk. Use StuffIt Expander on the 5300cs to decode the .bin (drag each .bin file onto the StuffIt Expander program icon). Place the decoded System 7.5.3 files (one .smi and the other .part) in a common folder. Double-click on the first (.smi) file to mount the self-mounting image (the installer will be found inside).
If you do not have a suitable StuffIt Expander for the PB 5300cs, try this: Use a PC(!) to download the MACDISK.EXE file here. Prepare an empty PC-formatted 1.44 MB diskette via FORMAT A: in DOS or the full formmatting option under Windows. Launch the MACDISK.EXE program on the PC. Follow the on-screen directions. The result will automatically be a Mac-formatted disk with a ready-to-use StuffIt Expander installer.
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