How do I get a disk out of the drive on a PowerPC G5 that won't boot

I tried to reinstall OS X 10.4.9 to an old machine to clear the machine to sell
It wouldn't boot ... multi-lingual restart screen with a message that a driver might be missing
now I can't boot the machine and the disk is in the drive which I can't get open
without the disk the machine boots to the old system
how do I get the disk out ... then what do I do to clean the machine to sell it?

Niel,
thank you. Incredibly easy when you have the right combination.
I have attached a screen shot ...
the top line reads "unable to find driver for this platform PowerMac 11.2"
this (I'm pretty sure) is the original disk that came with the machine (10.4.9)

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