My iMac G4 doesn't detect my bootable USB

Hi,
I have a 16 Gb USB stick with Xubuntu bootable on it. But when I tried to boot my old iMac G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 from that USB (by pressing the option key when the computer booted up) it did just show the main harddrive in the computer, nothing else.
Before I made it bootable I formated it and the format is now MS-DOS (FAT). And to make it bootable I wrote some commands in the terminal. The file on the USB is the Xubuntu installer .iso
Can some body help me to figure out why my iMac G4 don't find the USB. Does it have something to do with the format (MS-DOS (FAT)), or the system on the usb?
EDIT: I made the USB bootable on a MacBook running the latest version of Lion

I have Ubuntu 6.06 LTS installed on my iMac g3 600. I had to reformat the Harddrive with disk utility. I left a large unassigned space on the harddrive. I installed Ubuntu into the largest free space. Use startup manager to boot into Ubuntu.
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