[G4] help with G3

[Sims David]

On Sep 5, 2006, at 3:00 PM, c m wrote:
> i recently got a hold of a B/W G3...unfortunately the
> previous owner took the internal hard drive with him.
> i got a hold of another HD (80Gb) and i am trying to
> install OS X 10.4.
>
> the problem is the hard drive does not show up on the
> list to install the OS. System profiler shows the HD
> though. what am i doing wrong?

> Hello,
When you boot using the OS install disk, open the disk utility from  
one of the pull down menus and initialize the disk. Then you should  
be able to install the OS on it.

David