New Hard drive - not seen in imac g5 isight

I have installed a 1TB hard drive in my Imac G5 isight - checked all fittings and cables - get to the grey screen - and if I input the leopard disc (legal version) i get to the install where section - but the HD is not recognized - all the data I read (4hrs) tells me i NEED TO FORMAT- however how do you format ?
I have a spare - G4 laptop with leopard
I have a macbook with leopard
Note the specs for the HD came from apple - the HD did not
Help would be appreciated

Hi,
first of:
you are in the wrong Forum.
This is the Mac Mini Forum, whereas the iMac G5 Forum is here http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=134
Nonetheles, when you have booted the iMac from the OSX Leopard DVD and have choosen your language, you find the Disk Utility app in the Top Menu - Utilities.
Run Disk Utility from there, click on your new harddisk in the left pane and in the right pane click on the 'Partition' Tab.
Partition to your liking and make sure that to use the 'Option' button to set the partition map to be 'Apple Partition Map' (otherwise you can't boot from it).
Hope it helps
Stefan

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