Can't get my Imac to startup from the hard drive...

I'm trying to update an old tray loaded Imac G3. I've put a new hard drive and new ram in the machine. I initiallized the disk and installed OS 9.2 from an official Apple CD. I selected my main drive as my startup disk but when I restart, it gives me the old face on the blinking folder. I ran disk utility to see if the disk was damaged and everything came out fine. I wiped the disk clean and reinstalled but still the same problem. Any guesses... I'm stumped. One other thing, when I'm booted from the OS 9 CD, is it normal for me to get errors that says the startup disk is locked?
Imac G3 Mac OS 9.2.x Tray loaded CD ROM

Hi, braddo -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
One other thing, when I'm booted from the OS 9 CD, is it normal for me to get errors that says the startup disk is locked?
Yes.
When you boot to a CD, the CD is the startup disk. Since a CD like that can not be written to (which is one of its advantages), it is, in effect, a locked disk. Hence the message.
An old tray loader iMac is probably an original Bondi 233MHz machine, or a later 5-Flavors 266MHz or 333MHz model. Those models are subject to the 8GB restriction as described in this Apple KBase article -
Article #25249 - Gray or White Screen After Hard Drive Upgrade
If the new hard drive is 8GB or larger, it will need to be partitioned such that the first partition is a bit less than 8GB (7.7GB is a safe size), and all OS's installed on that partition.
The installer on all OS 9 Install CDs will not check for compliance with that requirement (the installers on OSX install CDs will check for it).

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