Imac G3 won't install Os or boot from cd/dvd

Hi
I have an imac G3 450 with DVD-rom currently running OS X 10.3.9
It has 576 megs of ram and a 20gig hard drive.
I want to install Tiger but when the computer restarts it spits the disc out I have also tried to boot 10.3 from the CD and it does the same. It only spits discs out on restart! I checked and repaired the hard drive permissions but it did not solve the problem!
Has anybody ever encounter such a situation?
What can I do?
Thanks for any advice

Same thing happened to me. I did a work-around by attaching my iMac G3 700to my G3 Pismo laptop with a firewire cord and starting the iMac up in Target Disk Mode (restart iMac and hold down the "T" key).
I was then able to restart my laptop with the install disk and select the iMac for the Tiger installation.

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