Installing a generic version of Tiger on an Imac without a DVD drive

I am trying to install Tiger on an Imac via an Iomega external dvd drive and not had any success. The Imac shows Tiger is present in the StartUp dialogue box and I can select it and choose restart. However nothing happens. Has anybody any suggestions?
IMac Blue 500MHz processor Mac OS X (10.3.9) 20 GB 192 MB Ram

I think that you are lost. This is the discussion area for the iBook G4.
You probably want to post in the iMac CRT G3 discussion area.
Is this a USB DVD drive or a FireWire DVD drive? The iMac can not boot OS X from a USB drive of any kind.

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