Erased harddrive with Disk 1 of Tiger but can't eject disk to install Panth

I have a iMac G5 PowerPC 8,2. I am prepping the computer to be used in my research laboratories by others. As described here, I have erased my hard drive. I put in Disk I of the install disk that came with the computer (Tiger) and used Disk Utility and did a 7 pass erase which took all of 5 hours. Now the screen is prompting me to Install. However, I would like to use my Panther disks to Install Panther rather than Tiger, but I can't quite figure out how to eject the Tiger disk, and put the Panther disk in, particularly without absolutely confusing the computer about which disk is supposed to be booting from. So, do I need to install Tiger first and then install Panther?
HELP is most welcomed.
Thanks,
M

molecularpenguin, welcome to Apple Discussions.
You have to install Tiger. You can't install an OS older than the OS that came on the Mac.
To open the disc drive, depress/hold your mouse on startup.
 Cheers, Tom

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