My computer needs dvd Help

I just joined the mac world From the lathargice pc world. i bought a power mac g4 350 pci i want to up date the os from an older os x to the new tiger i bought also.
here is the thing it only has a cdrom drive not a dvd drive. a few questions
1. i have a Iomega CD-RW 52x/DVD-ROM 16x USB 2.0 External Drive i want to take it out and put it inside the g4 to install the new osx i dont know what drive is inside the iomega for iam in iraq at this time. now the 1 thing is can it work in it and can it support booting dvd's
2.can the power mac g4 350 pci boot from USB of firewire.
3.what picture software can i run on it i know its old. break it to me softly.
i bought it because it was cheap and iam only starting out with the macs.i also bought a ati 9600 pci card at 128mb
once i get back to the states i will do all of this i thank you all for your help.
let me know whats up
Message was edited by: jesttronics

Unfortunately that machine will not boot from firewire It will boot from usb but the port is usb 1, not usb 2, so would be incredibly slow. If you are running a version of the os older than tiger there is a good chance the computer will not recognize the drive. However, you can download a small program called Patchburn which may help. I say may help because I'm not sure that the drive will work if removed from the case. I have tried in the past to do what you want to do and have been unsuccessful. You can buy a new drive for about $40, I think that's a better way to go. Use the external drive as a second drive. I owned the 400 mhz version of that machine and ran an old version of IPhoto on it, also an old version of Photoshop Elements. Don't expect to do any heavy duty photoshop activity with it in any case.
Only other advice is give the machine the full gig of ram it can support if you want to boost performance under Tiger. Also, here's a link to a page which discusses your machine: http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g4.shtml

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