New DVD Burner

Hi All,
I have installed a new Sony "DVD RW DW-Q120A" to my antique G4 350 yikes with hopes of installing 10.4 from the DVD disk. After installing the Sony DVD, I threw in a movie DVD and it was read just fine. I then tried to load my 10.4 DVD and got the continual spinning noise from the DVD drive and nothing showed up on the desktop. I also tested my 10.3 DVD disks that I got with my iBook. I was able to load the 10.4 DVD onto my iBook (G4) so I know the 10.4 DVD is good.
I called apple support and was told that they don't support my yikes machine any further due to its age.
Any thoughts or suggestions to get 10.4 loaded onto my yikes machine? Should I try loading 10.3 first then load 10.4? The yikes machine is also one of the few that you can't start from a firewire device.
Cheers,
Mike

Hi, Mike!
This doesn't address the optical drive read issue, but it may assist in getting Tiger installed via FW Target Disk Mode.
The Yikes can't be used as the target, but it will work as the host computer with the iBook used as the target.
Please review the FW TDM procedure in Apple Article linked above, then try this:
1. Insert the install DVD into your iBook.
2. Start the iBook while holding down the t-key.
3. Connect the two computers with a firewire cable.
4. Boot the G4 while holding doen the Option-key to get to the Startup Manager.
5. In Startup Manager, select the install DVD as boot drive for the G4 and boot to it to install.
Gary
1GHz DP G4 Quicksilver 2002, 400MHz B&W rev.2 G3, Mac SE30 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 5G iPod, Epson 2200 & R300 & LW Select 360 Printers, Epson 3200 Scanner

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