Close but no cigar. (Installing Panther on Beige G3)

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Last time I posted here back in October, I was having trouble with a USB 2 PCI card with my Biege G3 running OS 8.6. Got an old USB 1.1 card since then and it is working fine...Now I am upgrading even farther. I've been reading the posts here, and have concluded that the Panther OS seems to be the least problematic for OSX on Beige G3. So I have been trying to install it, and am stuck at a very early stage. Here is what I have done, see if I missed anything:
1) Bought a retail copy of OS 9.0 and updated to 9.2.2.
2) Got a new battery (it needed one).
3) Bought a retail version of Panther. (Used but complete.)
4) Downloaded XPostFacto v. 3.1 - read all the instructions, and met all the requirements.
5) Partitioned my disk into 3 as per the instructions, as follows:
a) Part. 1 - 7.66 Gigs Extended Format (Closest I could get to 8 Gigs using Apple's Drive Setup). I call this partition "OS X".
b) Part. 2 - 37.68 Gigs Extended Format - Installed System 9.2.2. I call this partition "System 9".
c) Part. 3 - 28.74 Gigs Standard Format - Will be used for older stuff, and called "Classic".
6) Put Panther's first install CD into the CD drive.
7) Started up in OS 9.2.2 from the System 9 disk and launched XPostFacto. I get their menu. Everything cool so far.
8) The instructions at this point say to "Select the target Volume you want to install OS X to" and "Select Install CD".
This is where I am stuck! The menu shows all 3 partitions in the upper section, and in the lower section is shown the Install CD, but EVERYTHING is greyed out. I can't select anything. The first 'disk' shown is System 9, greyed out, and says 'OSX not installed', but there is a yellow caution symbol next to it. The caution symbol I CAN click on, and it says "This volume cannot be used to boot OS X because it extends past the 8 GB mark on the disk". Well, duh, I don't want to install it on that disk.... The other two partions are also shown, greyed out, and with the 'OSX not installed' note for the OS X partition (But no caution symbol); and the "Classic" partition, greyed out, says 'Not a Bootable Device'.
The Install CD section says 'Mac OSX install Disk 1' and 'Mac OS 10.3 install CD' - greyed out. The "Install from CD.." button is also greyed out and unclickable.
I checked the Log file, and don't see anything that stands out as a problem from that - I'll post what it says if that will help, but what do I do? Thanks.
Rick M.
Beige G3   Mac OS 9.2.x   416 MB RAM, 80 Gig hard Drive, USB, FireWire, ATI Video in PCI slots
Beige G3   Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier  
Beige G3    

Success!!
Grant, your idea about reformatting all the partitions in Extended format did the trick. I took the time to zero out everything for the initialization - probably overkill, but I wanted to make sure I left no stone unturned.
I guess it figures that if any of the partions on a disk are unbootable, it wont let you install on any of them.
Nice find!.... I was originally thinking that I wanted a partition in standard format because the only disk maintenance tool I have other than the Apple Disk First Aid is Norton Utilities, and I noticed that Norton doesn't seem to work too well on an extended format disk. So I wanted to keep older stuff on that partition, and keep it in check with Norton. Lesson learned.
Anyway, the Mac is in the other room installing away, so if I don't post anything for awhile, that is a good sign that things are going smoothly. Fingers crossed. So we can mark this post as "Solved" (If I can figure out how). Thanks again for your help.
-Rick M.
Beige G3   Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier  

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