IMac G3 Indigo 400-Panther Installation Freeze

Hey Guys/Girls,
I'm setting up a file server of sorts with two identical Indigo 400 mhz iMac G3's, one of them already has Panther installed and the other is currently on 10.1.2. The problem is when the computer restarts to boot from the CD, it loads up to the gray Apple screen with the pinwheel and I can hear the hard drive working for a while and then it stops making noise and sits on the gray screen with the wheel turning. It does this both from a cold boot from CD and when I restart from the prompt on the disk. It does the same thing with a blank fresh-format hard drive, from OS 9.2, and from OS 10.1.2. These are legit disks that I bought new in the box. I updated the firmware to 4.1.9 first thing and I verified that it took. I seem to remember having the same problem with a Blueberry 350 a couple years ago. I have installed from these disks before on various machines so it isn't a bad copy. The machine seems to work fine with 9 and 10.1.2 and the CD-ROM isn't bad. It's got 512 and plenty of hard drive space. Obviously the computer will run 10.3 I just can't get past the gray screen on this one.

stevietrendy, welcome to Apple Discussions.
Are your Panther install CDs black with a white X?
I see no reason that the iMac can't install Panther (Tiger is the max OS). The only possibility might be one of the RAM modules. OS X is "picky" about RAM quality. Usually if RAM is the problem, you will experience a kernel panic. Try removing one of the RAM modules.
Since you have another Mac & if you have a Firewire cable, you could install Panther on the "problem" iMac by using the "good" iMac and Target Disk Mode. See How to Use Firewire Target Disk Mode
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
 Cheers, Tom

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