Formatting a new hard drive and installing os in it. Help!

hi mi name is john.
i recently bought an i book (its an ibook, it only says that on the front screen) on ebay came with a crack screen which i replaced when i started it a folder with a flashing question mark appeared. i researched and found out i it was a hard drive problem. i thought. i replaced it with a 120 GB hard drive. when i started it again the same happened. i also have a macbook pro woking fine i try to use the remote install it didn't worked over the airport i haven't try the fire wire to usb. i also bought original install and restore cd with 10.4.9 os for it. but it doesn't boot from it,
i looked on the support forum i tryed everything in this forum http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570 even Reset the NVRAM / PRAM, except for the erase and install because i cant use the start up disk as i told you it doesn't boot from cd. i press the c key and nothing happens it just keeps flashing. by the way the ram is 250 mb i don't know if thats a problem because the drive is 120 GB, it also doesn't strat up with the cd of my mac book pro 10.6.6
it just doesn't start up from the cd. i know i have to prepare the drive to formatted as HFS+ (Extended), but how i do that now. if i have everything put together.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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when i started it a folder with a flashing question mark appeared. i researched and found out i it was a hard drive problem.
Not so much a hard drive problem as a case of no valid operating system found. The underlying reason could be a hard drive issue but maybe somebody just wiped it and didn't put one on.
i replaced it with a 120 GB hard drive. when i started it again the same happened.
Still no operating system until you format the drive and put an OS on.
i also have a macbook pro woking fine i try to use the remote install it didn't worked over the airport i haven't try the fire wire to usb.
A system from an Intel MBP, especially 10.6, will not run a G3 PPC computer.
i also bought original install and restore cd with 10.4.9 os for it. but it doesn't boot from it,
If this is a grey disc that is only intended to work on the computer model with which it was supplied. You need retail version discs which are black in color and harder to find (and more pricey).
i looked on the support forum i tryed everything in this forum http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570 even Reset the NVRAM / PRAM, except for the erase and install because i cant use the start up disk as i told you it doesn't boot from cd. i press the c key and nothing happens it just keeps flashing.
Because it's the wrong kind of disc.
by the way the ram is 250 mb
Tiger minimum RAM requirement is 256MB, but that really is a minimum.
i know i have to prepare the drive to formatted as HFS+ (Extended), but how i do that now.
You need to find a retail version (black) set of discs. Tiger would be better, but you need more RAM. Panther would be okay but there's definitely limitations in terms of available software.
Operating systems you'll have to find on the used market. Expect to pay nearly $100 for Tiger, probably less for Panther.

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