Initializing a new Hard Drive/OSx

[Bill Metcalfe]

Thanks for all the suggestions,but I seem to have screwed up the 
machine to the point where all your help is unavailing.
Several months ago, I upgraded the old Hard Drive to OS 9.2.2 by 
downloading bit and pieces from 9.0.4 on. Somewhere in there, the CD 
burner ceased working. Since then The G4 will not start up with the 
original OS 9 disk. It will start up with an OS 10.2 and a disk for 
OS X that came with my son's reconditioned iBook.Out of all the 
possible Drive Set-Ups I can open, the only one that seems to offer 
hope is that which came with the iBook; It shows both the old and the 
new drives, only it says that the new drive is the start up drive and 
the old drive can be initialized. I think that the old drive is still 
numbered 0 and the new 1.With this information, I am wondering if I 
could switch the jumpers around and maybe cause enough confusion that 
it might allow me to initialize the new drive.But I read somewhere 
that it was potentially dangerous to use a CD of an OS for another 
type of Mac. In this case, an iBook.
  Now,if there is a disk in the cd drive, the computer will only start 
up from that disk, and then it takes about 5 minutes while it 
displays several icons to show that it does not know from which disk 
to start up.