Powerbook G4 Titanium 15, 500mhz won't upgrade or start with DVD

Hello
I'll try to be brief!
I have been given a Powerbook G4 Titanium 15, 500mhz. 256 mb RAM with a 20gb hard drive. It starts up OK from the hard drive with OSX 10.1.5.
I'd like to upgrade the OSX.
It will not start from a OSX 10.4 startup disk.
If I connect to the internet and run and run Software Update it will not offer any software upgrade.
If I start it as a target firewire disk and copy a 10.4.11 update .dmg to it's desktop from my Macbook Pro, then restart the Powerbook, the file disappears when I click on it. It may reappear a little later but will disappear again when clicked on. A usb flash drive will not mount when inserted into the usb slot.
Can anyone tell me what's going on?
Many thanks
Howard

Hello
Thank you very much for your reply:
What do you mean by "OSX 10.4 startup disk"? Is it the grey original system disk from another computer model? They are machine specific so that could be reason no.1
Fair point – I thought about that which is why I then used a Tiger full install disk.
If however its a full 10.4 retail disk you need 3Gb free space on your hard drive.
The G4 has plenty of free disk space.
Beyond that Software Update will only update within the version of OSX installed on the computer - in your case up to the final release of 10.1 Puma - 10.1.5 which is what you already have installed.
Fair enough. That makes sense.
The 10.4.11 update dmg you are trying to use is only designed to update an already installed earlier version of 10.4. If you want to install Tiger you will need to track down a full install disk if that's not what you already have.
Yes, fair point. I may have been clutching at straws there after the full install disk failed to boot the laptop.
Don't know about the USB drive - what's on it? Ideally you would run a hardware test on the PB - if you have the original install disk for the PB you'll find it on there.
I know you can't boot from a USB by the way.
I ran diagnostics on the hard drive when I booted it as a firewire target disk. A few footling details were corrected but nothing surprising.
The big deal I think is getting data on to the hard disk and why does it vanish when you click on it?
I'm sure I have managed to boot from a grey installer disk even if it does not then allow you to actuallly exeute the install. But this won't boot from anything and won't 'see' files tht have been saved to it. Puzzling.
Thank you again
Hoawrd

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