Formatting a Drive in a Quick Silver G4 733

Hello Hello
I just picked up a Quick Silver G4 733 from Ebay, and it was supposed to have had it's hard drive erased.
Well, when I tried to boot it up, it tried to boot into OS 9.2, but apparently gets stuck in the process. My guess is that the morons didn't do a proper erase of the hard drive, before they shipped it.
So I opened the case and got the CDROM Draw to open (manually)
I inserted my Apple Retail OS 9.1 disc into the drive and rebooted, while holding down the C key. This wasn't successful. The disc starts to spin but the system won't recogize the disc to boot up into. The disc is genuine - it's fine ...
The system just won't boot into it .....
Anybody have any suggestions? (Other than get a new Hard Drive)
Thanx
Mike

You cannot load OS9.1 on a Mac that only boots in OS9.2.2.
Buy OSX. Under OSX you should be able to install your OS9.1 then go to Apple.com and download the updates to 9.2.2.
After that you should be able to boot into OS9.
I don't know if this will work because I have never tried it.
Usually, when you try to boot from a older system you get a message that says" This system cannot be installed on this Mac"
ALSO...Make sure your RAM did not come loose in shipping. Check and make sure the RAM is securely pushed in.

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