Upgrading a tray load iMac hard drive

I forgot thr solution to this but if some one could help me remember. I put a 40gb harddrive into a tray load purple g3 333mhz. When I try and install 10.3 it tells me I cant because my drive is not with in the first 8gb, What do I do to fix that?

While booted from the OS X installer CD, select "Utilities" from the drop-down menu. Run "Disk Utility" and it will list the hard drive. Select it and choose to erase it and partition it into (2) Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volumes. Make the first partition about 7.8-7.9 GBs, and use the remaining unused portion of the drive for the second partition. If you also want to install and boot from OS 9, be sure to select the "Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed" option.

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