10.2.3 G4 ERASE & RESTORE can`t reboot from CD-ROM

In advance thankyou for any help
I want to give my old G4 to my mother-in-law. Lucky lady! So I would just like to reinstall the OS from scratch and remove anything else.
1/ When I put in CD-ROM push power button and hold C. I get a window asking me to restart my Mac.
2/ If I look at the CD-ROM while in my user space, I can only see `Installer Mac OS X application` and `Installer applications et gestion Classic` ......there is no Restore application.
If I click on Installer Mac OS X and push Restart button in the application window as requested. My Mac restarts and comes back to the same window as above, asking me to restart my Mac.
3/ I`ve also used the Startup Disk application under System Preferences with the same result.
I don`t know if the problem is related to the fact that 10.2.3 came with OS 9?
The machine currently is upto 10.2.8.
G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x) CD-ROM Reboot problem

There is no Restore on any retail mac installation disks.
Restore disks are usually machine specific in most cases the restore should be done from the disks that came with the mac.
There are also machine specific install disks. Many of the imac install disks may boot another mac but will give you a troublesome installation. Other install disks that came with a specific mac will not boot another mac.
If you purchased a retail install disk for your mac or are using the disks that came with your mac then they should work. Making the assumption that you are using the correct install disks your mac should boot from them. If it does not then there is a hardware issue. Many times this can be resolved by resetting the pmu.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=95037

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