I only have one drive on the bus. I removed the broken CDrom completely.

Today I tried installing 9.0 with target disc mode, but that didn't work either.

Last night I tried 8.5, but the G4 wouldn't even allow it. (I figured it couldn't hurt to try).

Soo... 9.2.1, 9.0, and 8.5 have not worked so far. I'm running out of install discs.

I really don't know what to do.

9.1 maybe?

Has anyone actually ever successfully booted an iMac without a CD drive?

I'm not 100% sure if this is even the original drive that was in it, since I have two 20 gb drives. Maybe I could try the other 20gb.