Trying to do a clean install on iBook G4 - Freezing

I received a G4 iBook and want to do a clean install to erase the previous owner's hard drive and add all my own applications.
When I put the disk in it asks me to use a password, which I have and the computer restarts. But just as the grey apple icon appears in the center of the screen, it slighly shifts tot he right, a line of pixels appear to burn out, and the screen is frozen. I then have to restart holding down the mouse button and the eject button to get the disk to eject. When it restarts without the disk inside the computer runs fine and the pixels are no longer "burned out"
The laptop has 10.3.9, the disk I am using to clean install is the original 10.3 disk (I was planning to update after the install)
Can anyone help?
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
iMac G4 flatscreen Mac OS X (10.3.8)
iMac G4 flatscreen Mac OS X (10.3.8)

Hi eric
Does it start up normally without any problem?
You won't need to use a password if have the disk inserted and choose restart and then hold down the C key until the grey screen/apple logo appears.
roam

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