How do I get OS on new hard drive?

I installed new hard drive on g4 (snowball), when turned on it makes a 'boop' sound. Nothing on  the screen. I know I have to install a new system, but  can't put install disk in dvd drive (non apple keyboard ). Help please.

This will be pretty complicated for you if you cant even eject the DVD drive. 
Please do this 1 step at a time. 
1)  HOLD DOWN the mouse clicky button immediately after starting the computer , when you hear the sound, and hold the mouse button until the DVD drive ejects.  Hold down the mouse button....  it WILL eject the drive.  If not, the computer is very broken, or the dvd drives motor is broken, or the door is super-glued shut, or your mouse is broken, or your hand is broken. 
2)  report back on to me on #1.  if you successfully complete #1, we will move on. 
(dont let this part distract you, im just going to copy and paste since i already found this by googling and i dont wanna save it on my computer)
Future Reference:  this might be step 10 later on... 
Sometimes if volumes don't appear in Startup Manager (what you get when you hold down the Option key at startup), you need to reset the Mac's PRAM, NVRAM, and Open Firmware. Shut down the Mac, then power it up, and before the screen lights up, quickly hold down the Command, Option, P, and R keys, until the Mac has chimed twice more after the powerup chime. Then, before the screen lights up, hold down Command-Option-O-F until the Open Firmware screen appears. Then enter these lines, pressing Return after each one:
reset-nvram
set-defaults
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