Firstly hello everyone, I'm new around here :p
Recently I got my hands on a PowerMac G4. It was working fine, but after a few days it's hard drive gave up. I figured whatever, I had to reinstall anyway - - it was filled with old, useless files. So I picked up an old WD hard drive and went to work. I fried the Mac OS 9.2.2 universal image I found here to a dvd and booted from it. Seemed good. I followed the instructions and initialized the drive. No errors. Then I went to Apple System Restore. Wouldn't open the first few times, said something about a disk error. Worked the 4th time. When I clicked the "Restore" button, about half-way through the process, it just stopped and bam : an error message, -36. Allegedly that means "I/O error" but that doesn't give me a lot to go on. Any help is appreciated!
P.S. I have tried to restore it more than once. At least a dozen or so times.