Not to take the thread in a whole different direction, but I attempted the SSD install yesterday with no luck.

I watched two tutorials and was fairly confident in my abilities. The Macmini came apart pretty easily and I was extra careful when accessing the old hard drive. But when I booted it up after re-assembly -- while holding Option Key -- it only got as far as the Mac boot menu with no volumes to boot from. I had inserted the MorphOS live CD at initial boot, but it never showed up. The CD drive spun up and back down.

My fallback plan was to re-install the old (but working) hard drive and live to try another day, but even after that, the computer fails to boot.

Now I have a borked Macmini G4 with a MorphOS live CD stuck in the drive and no clue what to do next.

I hope someone here has some good ideas to point me in the right direction.