Digital Audio 533 Macosx install

Hi There,
I Bought a digital audio 533 and 2 120G Seagate harddisks. Installing macosx is no problem but when i reboot and going to update the mac the mac will hang en it forced me to reboot the mac. But then the **** begins i get every time aan kernel panic, its nog about the memory is al certifid apple ram so thats not the problem, when i boot from the dvd and run the disk utillity, it says that the keys on the disk are wrong and its inpossible tot fix it. So i runb the install again, first format the disk again, and instal macosx 10.4 but i get the same every time. Someone a idea? Maybe firmware?
My specs
Single 533 mhz digital audio
2x 120 seagate
2x 512 Transcend Mac memory PC 133
1x ATI 9800 Pro 128 mb
1x Freecom Superdrive
Powermac G4 Digital audio Mac OS X (10.4)

Hi, profclimber!
For successful installation of OS X 10.2 or later, your Mac must have firmware updated to version 4.2.8. To check for this, boot to open firmware (depress and hold cmdoption+of at startup). When the command line screen appears, the firmware version will appear on the top line of the screen. To exit open firmware afterwards, simply power down with the power button, or enter "mac-boot" at the screen prompt, followed by pressing the Return key, which will restart the Mac. If the firmware is not up-to-date, go here for the installation instructions and download. Please note that if a firmware update is necessary, it must be installed using OS 9.1 (or a version of OS 9 later than OS 9.1 which has been installed on a drive in the Mac, versus being run directly from a disc or run over a network, etc).
In order to successfully install Tiger, you should be using a (black) retail install disc. (Gray) OEM discs shipped with a different model computer will very likely cause problems.
Before installing Tiger, use Disk Utility's Erase option to reformat the startup drive drive using the Mac OS Extended format. In that window, you'll see a button named "Security Options...". Click on it and check the box to overwrite zeros to the drive. Overwriting zeros will take some time, but will insure that your hard drive is clean of any old data artifacts which could possibly interfere with your install. It will also map out any bad sectors which may on the drive, preventing possible data corruption when you do the fresh install of Tiger.
I'd recommend disconnecting any third-party peripheral devices you may have attached when doing the install. When your installation is complete, you might launch Disk Utility and Run Repair Permissions on the startup volume before running Software Update. Do the same before any subsequent runs of Software Update and run it once more after your system software is completely updated.
Gary
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