Burn bootable Mac CDs with PC

I am brand new to the Mac world as I wanted to get one to be able to test my applications across both windows and macs. I have a Power Mac G3. I realized I cannot load Firefox on it unless I have OS X. I did a little reading and it seems the best I can load is OS X Panther. So I located the disk images on our network, which were ISOs. I burned the CDs using my PCs Blindwrite. I can see the files when I put the disk into the Mac. I click on the setup and a box comes up and says "Restart to start OS upgrade" or something of that sort. But when it reboots it starts nothing. I have tried to boot holding the "C" key but it does nothing. So my guess is that it burned the CD okay but didn't make it bootable? The Mac guy is no longer with the company so I really have no idea what to do. How can I get this OS upgraded? Maybe I need another PC application to burn it with.

It's possible. You would need a PC program such as MacDrive that can read/write Mac discs. It might be easier to transfer the images to a Mac, then burn the images on the Mac.
I would assume, however, that if the images are on your servers that your site has the capability of performing network installs. I would check on that with your sys admin.
I'm not sure if you can obtain a bootable OS X disc by burning on a Mac running OS 9.
The best site for information on network installation and distribution is www.bombich.com. Maybe you will find more useful info there or on their forum.

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