Not able to boot

I have been working with our school system to recycle the old systems so they aren't just thrown away. I currently have 8 Imac G3 333Mhz with a tray loading cdrom and many more on the way.
In trying to install 9.2.2 I have run into problems.
I am unable to get these to boot to the cd - any cd. I have held down the "c" upon boot and it loads the hard drive. I have done the "Programmers Button" fix with no result. Another sugggestion was to remove the battery, no luck. I even found a post that said to change the amount of ram by removing a dimm, that did not work either.
I believe that they have installed software to keep the kids from making changes, this software must have changed the bios to disable the ability to boot to a cd. It also will not read any cd after it boots. I thought this could be a bad cdrom, so I tested it and the drive and cd reads fine on another machine. Also this is the same result on multiple systems so I doubt it is a hardware failure.
I would like to reinstall the os so these can be put to some use other than parting them out. But how?
G3 333 Mac OS 9.2.x

Hi Xavier
If they are all behaving the same then it would suggest that the drives have been disabled somehow.
I don't know of a way of doing it other than by turning of extensions - but in your case, the CDs are not being read before the extension load so that is not the answer.
Try taking out one of the Hard-drives, formatting it and reinstalling using another Mac and then put it back in and see what happens. From the above para, logic says it shouldn't affect the CD issue (but since when has logic had anything to do with computers?)
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