Installing MacOS X 10.3 on a Bondi Blue G3/iMac on a blank IDE drive is weird. You have to boot to the CD, use the menu to switch to Disk Utility, partition the drive without MacOS 9 drivers, restart the Mac, boot to the CD AGAIN and then install the OS.

If you don’t do the restart after partitioning the drive, it states “You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. You cannot start your computer from this volume.”

WEIRD.