Spinning wheel during installation

After some major hard drive problems I formatted my hard drive on my macbook, disk utility wouldn't let me erase and install so I formatted the drive after hooking it up to my imac via firewire. I then tried to boot up and install the system from fresh using the original grey installation disks, however it appears to be frozen, the optical drive in continuously spinning and the 'busy wheel' permanently on, this is happening as soon as I power up the machine, it doesn't get to any kind of installation page.

Despite I had not the same syndromes I tried what I read from another post:
- stop the iMac by pushing power button 5 seconds
- restart
- press Ctrl+alt+p+r
It solved the problem.
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