Imac 266- getting past login trouble

OK so I found this Imac on the side of the road. To my surprise when I got it home it boots right up. It appears to be from a college and a sticker on it says login 9 Password 9.
Silly me I believed the sticker and went ahead and bought a keyboard for it. Keyboard is brand new made for OS X. Anyway the password doesn't work so I'm still stuck at the login screen. My only option that doesn't require a password is to shut down.
Since I don't have another mac or mac software I decided the easiest way to go is to download a copy of yellowdog Linux and go with that and keep my investment low. After all, I just want this thing for my kids to mess around with. Its a handy package. I attempted to boot to the YD CD by holding down the C key but no dice.
The CD drive appears to be working as it sounds like it accesses the CD while booting but still boots to the HD. I looked up some of the boot commands and tried them to force it to boot from CD but no love. One site I visited posited that tray loading Imacs cannot boot from CDRs. This seems to be the case but I further could not get it to boot to anything other than the HD despite any of the keyboard boot commands I tried. I could get it to boot without extensions but that got me no further than the log in screen.
I'm now assuming that that it cannot boot from a CD-R and went ahead and ordered an original 9.1 install disk from new world computing.
Now between the keyboard ($30) and the OS ($40) I am now into this "free" machine for $70 and there are nicer ones available online for $100 shipped.
OK enough babbling on to my questions:
Is it possible that the new keyboard is not entirely compatible explaining why I can't seem to do much with boot commands?
Can anyone confirm that tray loading Imacs cannot boot from CDRs? I'm really afraid that the OS9 disk is going to arrive just to find out that the problem was a faulty CDROM all along...
I'm really inexperienced with macs- Is there something obvious I'm overlooking in trying to get this thing going?
Thanks in advance for any tips/advice
Imac 266 Mac OS 9.0.x

The disk arrived today and I was actually able to boot with the cd and delete some extensions/files so that I could boot directly into OS 8.x.
Installation of 9 required a firmware update that went without a hitch. Now that I've gotten 9.1 in I'm having terrible trouble getting it to update to 9.21. Everytime I try it gives me an error 127.
I looked up this error and it seems that initializing the disk with a fresh install should solve the problem but it doesnt. Disk Utility says the disk is good.
This error comes when I try to install the north american English update. Is it possible the disk I have was international and this is causing the error? The only other thing I can think of is a bad ram chip - but I only get an error on this one update- everything els has been smooth. Any suggestions appreciated

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