diablo thanks for the response i knew it was something simple like that but at 4 in the morning i was not in the mindset for obvious solutions..lol
I ended up pulling the whole drive out opening through the lil front hole with a paper clip and inserting dvd....lol
it worked and 45 minutes...
same problem I have a Dual CPU powermac G5 2.0 mhz 2gigs of memory and a new unformatted 1 t. drive I get the flashing folder on boot and need to know how to open the cd tray?(i have a windows usb keyboard)
and how to format and install my mac osx v10.5 (osx leopard) retail install dvd