Firewire between PowerBook G4 and MacBook

I'm trying to connect my PowerBook G4 and MacBook via firewire. The MacBook is acting as the external hard drive.
The PowerBook G4 was turned on, I connected the firewire to both computer and then booted the MacBook holding down T. The firewire icon is floating on the MacBook, but the hard drive isn't showing up on the PowerBook G4 desktop. I restarted the PowerBook G4 while they were both still connected, but still nothing. Does this mean my MacBook hard drive isn't work?

The cable works fine, tried it between the PowerBook G4 and an external hard drive.
The MacBook does not boot. It turns on to a blank white screen and stays there. It won't boot into safe mode or single user mode or anything like that.
Yes, I do have the install discs and put them in to try and reinstall Leopard. They boot, but the hard drive won't show when it asks me where to install. I hear there's a bug with the hard drive not appearing there and waited up to an hour on that screen, but that didn't make it show either. Then I went into Disk Utility, but the hard drive wouldn't show there either. At some point it did, but I couldn't run a repair on it. Then I restarted with the installation disc in again and then it wouldn't show at all.

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