Mac Mini spins wheel on screen will not boot

This is a very frustrating problem. My new Mac Mini will not boot. I removed all external drive cables, ethernet, only display and kbd. Still not luck. Followed istructions in the booklet.
The little wheel under the Apple logo jsut keeps spinning around and around, with no change.
No Luck. Help!
Thank you

Track Down your install disk, and put it in, and then hold down the Alt key. Once the boot menu popups up select your CD. Then select your language and hit next. Afterwards go into utilites and then disk utilties; then select your Hard Drive (the top not the bottom) and hit repair disk and repair disk premissions. Then reboot.

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