Power mac G4 unable to load OS X 10.4.6

I have a Power mac G4 with OS X 10.2. I want to upgrade to OS X 10.4.6 which requires a DVD drive.
My G4 didn't come with a DVD so I had one installed. But my current software doesn't no support DVD drives so I can't use the DVD part.
So how can I make this work?

Insert the Mac OS X 10.4 installation disk into the drive, and then restart the computer with the Option key held down. If you are able to successfully start up from the drive, install Mac OS X 10.4.
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