Indigo iMac 500 Panics when booted from a Firewire drive

Hi all,
I have an iMac 500 Indigo and am trying to upgrade i to osx as other in this computer lab. I have been provided with a FireWire drive with a bootup of Tiger and a Panther disk image. Out of 32 computers here only three have ceaced to work. They are all the same 384 MB of RAM I have tried to a restore in FW Target Disk mode with no luck I am now trying to copy the files via classic probibly in vain. So back to the error, I see the computer in the UNIX bootup stage for a few (the grey apple with the progress indicator.) and then I get a Panic written directly to the screen over top of the graphic indicator as seen on older versions of OSX (10.0 10.01 or so)
Thanks
Sean

The firmware update is a good suggestion to check.
Here's another thing. You say you have been "provided with" an external firewire drive with Tiger on it. How was that Tiger OS installed on that firewire drive? If it was done on a computer that is not identical to your iMac, then it very well will not be able to boot your iMac. When you install Tiger or Panther or any version of Mac OS X, what is actually installed is a custom version of OS X that is tailored to the specific model of computer you are running at the time. So if the firewire drive has a Mac OS X that was installed, say from a G5, then that drive MIGHT only be able to properly boot that model of G5. It MIGHT be able to boot a G4 or a G3, but I think the odds are against that.
The reliable way to install OS X is from an OS X CD that is the commercially sold boxed version (not the installation CD that comes with a specific model of Macintosh, and not a firewire drive that has OS X from some other model of Macintosh).

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