Installing Mac OSX for first time, can't open drive

Help! I'm desperate. I just purchased a twin to my Power Mac G4 from a reseller on eBay, but it has no operating system. I have an OSX disc to install, but how do I get the drive open to insert the install disc?
My original machine is wonderful, but I bought it from the Apple Store, and I think the OS was pre-installed, so this is new to me.
Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.

Boot the system with the Option key held down. When the cursor changes to an arrow, use ⌘. (Command-Period) to open the optical drive, insert the disk, close the drive with ⌘. and click the curved arrow to make it look for the new disk. When the cursor changes to the arrow, select the install disk and click the straight, right-opinting, arrow to boot from the install disk.

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