Problem installing osx 10.1 on my imac g3 lime 400mhz

Hey guys i got mac os 9.1 on my imac when i try to upgrade it to 9.2.1 it fails and says it cant be installed but then when i try to install osx 10.1 that wont go no further than select a destination as the hard drive icon is grayed out any ideas? Thanks jason

Hey Jason,
Wasn't this originally a 233 tray? Which should be a 333 Lime tray? If so:
"If you have a hard drive over 8 GB in size, you must partition it, and the partition containing OS X must be completely within the first 8 GB of space or you will not be able to run OS X. (If you are creating the partition within OS X, it must be 7.45 GB or smaller as reported by Disk Utility, because sometimes a GB is billion bytes and sometimes it's 1,073,741,824 bytes.)"
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