Boot camp does not format the partition for Windows 7

I recently purchased a copy of windows 7.  This is the full version.  I downloaded the drivers to a usb drive then placed the windows 7 disk in my apple optical drive to partition to disk.  After portioning the iMac restarts and gives the a blank screen with _ blinking.  It seems as though the windows partition has not been formatted.  I cannot enter a dos command such as format or anything else.  If I start up the mac again with the windows 7 disk in the optical drive I will be prompted to insert a bootable disk.  I understand that after the partitioning takes place that bootcamp should start the installation process.  By the way after working on this for quite a long time I decided it might be the copy of windows so I returned it and got another.  Same resuts.  I hope someone can help.
Thanks

Read the instructions and it is pretty clear that you format to NTFS where you see the BOOTCAMP partition.
All the articles and how to are here:
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
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