Mini Mac will not load

recently my mac has been real slow, then a few days ago, it refused to load. I turn the power on, the power light comes on, you can hear the fan, the chimes go, then I get the gray page with the apple log and the circle thing. That is where it ends. I took it to the Genius Bar. He checked the hard drive, and repaired something. Then sent me home, telling me to install the Mac OS X using the Archive and install. I tried this, however I did not have enough space for it. About 8050MB over. I went through and deselected some of the things to try to free up space. I had to deselect everything and was still 726MB off. I quit installer and now when I try to get it to boot from the disc, it wont.
Any suggestions?

With the mini's original install disk in the drive, reboot the system and if holding the C key down doesn't appear to work, retry but this time instead of the C key, hold the OPTION key down (ALt if it's a PC keyboard). This key should put the system into the boot loader, where it should list all available boot sources for the system. Given the internal hard drive is faulty, the only drive it should list is the optical with the install disk inside. You then select that drive so the system will boot to it.
If you don't get the optical drive listed, make sure it is in fact the mini's original install disk that you're using - if it were a disk from another system instead, or a 'rail' copy of MacOS from prior to the date of the release of that model of mini, the install disk won't show because it isn't a valid boot source for that system.

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