Can't install OSX from OS 9.1

I have done a clean install of OS9.1 but when I try to install OS 10.0.3 my ibook (dual USB) asks me to restart to do the install but as it is booting up it shuts down soon after the happy Mac screen appears. I have tried to resart by holding down the "C" key and by selecting the CD as the start up disk in the control panel. Every time the computer acts like it is reading the CD but then shuts off automatically once the happy Mac screen is up. Any suggestions? is this a OS X CD problem?
thanks for any help or suggestions.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
First off 10.0.3 is too old a version of Mac OS X to run anything. Most consider Mac OS X unusuable until Mac OS X 10.2 or later. Whether it is the CD or not, I would not install 10.0.3 because of its relatively beta state.
Secondly, upgrading to Mac OS 9.2.2 gives you better support for Classic if you are going to use it. Here are the updates to 9.2.2:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75288
Your Mac can upgrade up to 10.4.7, though you'd want to upgrade the RAM to at least 512 MB. Also free up at least 5 GB of hard disk space and backup your data. You can have a professional install up to 160 GB hard drive in your iBook if that's what you want to do. Use the retail installer disks of 10.2 or later. The 10.2 disks are white with Jaguar fur X logo, and the Panther and Tiger are black with white and gray X logo. None of the ones you'd want say upgrade on them. Check the software you want to use in Mac OS X whether or not it has a Mac OS X upgrade, and whether or not it will work with your iBook, and get those upgrades first. Backup your data before installing Mac OS X. Here are some good resources I wrote about:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html

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