Mac mini reboot with a refresh symbol and a right arrow what do I do to reboot my os?

Hello I recently purchases a Mac mini G4 with what I thought was a blank hard drive I hold down the alt key on my PC keyboard and a screen comes up that has a refresh button and a right facing arrow I have a cursor and click on either of them and neither of them do anything what do I do?

ok thats what I thought, I obtained a linux lite os and burned it on a blank disk and inserted it in the mac mini it spun inside but then did not boot, im not sure if there is a sertain way to burn it to the disk to make it bootable, im using a laptop with windows to burn the disk with the os on it. any help will be welcome thank you

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I don't quite understand why you have asked me about why I'm keeping my URL secret?
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