Partition problems for OSX upgrade! YIPES!!

Hello,
I have an original bondi blue imac with an upgraded 466mhz chip and a 40G harddrive. I have performed all of the tasks required to upgrade to OSX
I have acquired the system on BLACK Cds (10.3.5)
I have upgraded my firmware
I have backed up my files
I have partitioned the drive with one partition being 8G the other whatever is left.
and THEN I have inserted the disk 1 into the drive and proceeded.
but I was returned the message "neither of your partitions is in the first 8G of the drive" so I assumed that I had mistaken the picture and that the top was the end of the drive not the beginning so I repartitioned the drive and now when I puyt the disk 1 in and start again I just get two exclamation marks and cannot click either of them.
what am I doing wrong?
It has been such a long journey for me to get to this point I am pretty zen about it but I am getting closer and closer to FLIPPING OUTOUOUTOUTOU!!
smiles
and thanks for any help that you can give me!!
kt
iMac G3 bondi :: imac G5 isight Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Make the first partition 7.8GB. The operative word is under 8 GB. You should be good-to-go from there.
It's confusing!
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The tech forum in the ExPostFacto site (http://forum.macsales.com/) has a number of extensive discussions about partitioning and recommendations. I suggest you look there for additional discussion by people with far more expertise than me.
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