Booting from instll disk taking forever

I am upgrading to Tiger doing an Erase and Install. When I boot from the disk it is sitting there with the apple and spinning wheel for like 15 minutes and still hasn't started up. Any suggestions.
Power Mac G4   Mac OS 9.2.x  

Hi Big Brad;
What install media do you have? Is the generic Tiger media or was it issued for another piece of hardware?
Allan

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