Actually, there is nothing on the hard drive. It is totally blank, a clean slate. I did it that way so I could install a fresh copy of 9 with all the drivers on the machine.

Should I still try and disconnect the CD drive? There would be nothing to boot, so it would sit there and flash.

Maybe it is having a problem with the 20gb hard drive? I know OS X has an 8gb limit, but is that also true on 8 or 9? If so, I will go digging for the original 4gb hard drive and put that back in. That should be large enough for what I need to do.

-digital