Can't install Panther on new hard drive

After my old hard drive failed on my IMac DV400, I bought a new 40GB hard drive. I put it in and when I put in Disc 1 of OS X 10.3, it gets to the destination drive and the pic has the drive with a ! mark in red and it says it can't load it as it is not in the first 8MB of the drive and will not let me go any farther. I erased the drive using the disc utility and now what do I need to do? I know on an IBM compatable, I have to format the drive but the disc utility doesn't have that option. What next? Bob

Bob:
Your iMac must be one referenced in this article.
As Niel indicated, you need to format your HDD so that the first partition is less than 8 GB.
Formatting, Partitioning Erasing a Hard Disk Drive
Boot from the install CD holding down the "C" key.
Select language
• Go to the Utilities menu (Tiger) Installer menu (Panther & earlier) and launch Disk Utility.
• Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
• Select Partition tab in main panel. (You are about to create tqo partitions.)
• Click on Options button
• Select number of partitions in pull-down menu above Volume diagram. You are creating two partitions.
• Either adjust the size of the volume in the diagram or type in the size field 7.9 GB
• Type in name in Name field (usually Macintosh HD) for Partition 1 and something like Data for Partition 2
• Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Optional: Check box to Install OS 9 Drivers
• Click Partition button at bottom of panel.
• Select Erase tab
• Select the sub-volume (indented) under Manufacturer ID (usually Macintosh HD).
• Check to be sure your Volume Name and Volume Format are correct.
• Click Erase button
• Quit Disk Utility.
Please do post back with further questions or comments.
Cheers
cornelius

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It works. Just a pain!!
Hard drives of SATA type interface does not have jumpers to configure. You
can still use a SATA 3.0Gb/s drive (set to 3.0Gb/s) in your system, but it
will only work at 1.5Gb/s.
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ATA settings. This utility has the diskette and CD version. If you do not
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