[Caelth]

I just bought my first Mac, PowerBook. I don't like to have computer with OS installed by someone else. I like to set up things myself, install options that I like. Well anyway...
I inserted the Restore CD, booted from it, and at the point where it asks me to select a drive for installation I have nothing. No HDD, partition to select!
So i fired up Disk Utility thingy, formated HDD clean but it still doesnt show in installer. What am I doing wrong?

[Caelth]

Oops! Sorry. I plugged the unit into AC power source, formatted HDD and everything worked. I guess the Disk Utility doesn't like to partition drives when running on battery?

[Caelth]

Seriously guys, I need help badly! I installed OS X, played a bit with it but it didn't want to shut down, so I hold down power button and went to sleep. Today I fired up the PowerBook and it cannot find OS. I started from Recovery CD and... Disk Utility shows that I have 500GB (!) hard disk. I tried to reformat it but obviously having only 60GB to work with, Disk Utility vreates incorrect partition table. First Aid repair says "repair completed" but upon verifying disk is displays the same error.
What should I do? Do I need to erase the PRAM?
UPDATE: I erased PRAM and HDD size shown in Disk Utility became correct again. I'm installing OSX right now. Hopefully, it will work.

[rockinphotog]

When you reformatted, you used HFS+? Are you interested in partitioning the HD? Maybe when you try to partition, it will straighten things out wiht the actual storage that is available.