Server install, hangs at drive erase

Greetings all - maybe someone out can lend some advice or point me to some resources. I'm installing tiger server on a g4 that was "donated" to our office. The box has the current server package already installed. I want to clean the slate before putting in our network, makes sense right? However, I'm getting the spinning beach ball of death when attempting to erase the drive during installation. Perhaps this is why it as a donation...

Thanks for your help Roger. I tried tried the disk utility as well with the same result. To get beyond this hold up (and although not a fix and I'm still curious why), I used 10.3's drive erase/installation, then installed the 10.4 server, erasing the drive again before installation. I ended the day with a fresh install of the server and a few hours of overtime.

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