Trying to replace a blown Ata drive on my G4.

Trying to replace a blown Ata drive on my G4.
Installed new Samsung 80gb/7200/2M/PATA set as master.
No option shows up for "Select destination drive." What's
a newbie to do?

Hi, and welcome to the forums. I see that you're new, and I must suggest that you'll get far better help if you can be as specific as possible.
When you're frustrated, it's quite tempting to be overly brief, but that just invites more questions for specifics.
There are some really great Super-Gurus on this forum who will give you great answers, if you give them the info they need to help you...
You can indeed choose "Open Disk Utility" from the file menu of the Mac Installer. I would format the drive as Mac HFS + (it may have come pre-formatted for Windoze). Then, it will most likely be visible when you attempt to install your System Software.
Good Luck!

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Which iBook do you have?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1772?viewlocale=en_US
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