Thanks for the feedback. >From About This Mac: Mac OS X version 10.3.2 OS9 Drivers: Yes Capacity: 18.63 GB Available: 14.88 GB Writable: Yes File System: Journaled HFS+ BSD Name: disk0s9 Mount Point: / I reinitialized the hard disk using the OS 9.2.1 CD and when the installer did not work I intsalled OS 10.3.2 and reinitialized the hard disk leaving the OS9 drivers option format for classic check marked as you can see from the About This Computer info above. What about these directions from Apple? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106294 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107383 =====