Can I upgrade a G3 Beige to tiger?

I am running 8.6 and need to upgrade. I purchased X Tiger. When I insert the CD it says unreadable by this Mac. Does that mean my G3 will not support Tiger? Help! Very frustrated....

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
As others have stated you need the CD Media to be able to upgrade to Tiger:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/
offers a Tiger Media Exchange program on its right hand side once you buy the retail Tiger disks.
Also to be able to upgrade to 10.2 or higher, there are specific firmware updates for the Beige G3s commonly included hardware:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117
And you need XPostfacto to get beyond 10.2.8.
You won't be able to use 8.6 in the Classic environment, so you'll also need to find a place a place that sells the retail 9 disks to upgrade to Mac OS 9.
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html
has many other upgrade tips. Weigh the fact that your hard drive is probably no bigger than 10 GB, can only have 8 GB in the first partition, if larger than 8 GB, and Tiger's default installation is 3 GB:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.html
and that many of the drivers for third party hardware you might have connected to your machine don't exist in Tiger, I would suggest keeping your Beige G3 as a Mac OS 8.6 or 9 machine, and network it to a new X machine like a $500 Mac Mini instead of trying to upgrade your Beige G3 to Tiger. While the latter is doable, it is an exercise in putting a jet engine on a horse drawn chariot. If that's the kind of machine you want to have, that's your choice.
Disclaimer: Reference to links I make to my Macmaps.com website are a for your information only type reference. I do not get any profit from this page, and it is open to the public.

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