Stuck installing panther on a imac

my friend who works in a recycling center has given me a imac , i have know idea of the spec of the machine,i have tried to put panther on it the cd auto loads and seems to load all of cd 1 but when it restarts it starts from the beginning again and doesn't ask for cd2, i have looked in the disk utility from the installer and have seen the drive is split into 2 the first is about 8gb the other 12gb but thats as far as i have got, i know nothing about imacs at all infact iam just learning about my g4 so any help would be welcome like how to tell what the imac is and if i can upgrade it anyway and especially how to install panther

Hello Again simmo365!
"...8gb the other 12gb but thats as far as i have got."
That doesn't add up to 30 GB. "...it has a 30gb harddrive..."
The first partition should be just under 8 GB, like 7.85.
Info here Mac OS X: Disk Appears Dimmed (or "Grayed Out") in the Installer.
These are the Minimum Panther System Requirements
Additional Panther System Requirements.
Did you also receive the original system install discs?
Before upgrading to any OS X version, check to see if your Mac needs a Firmware Update.
If one is required, you must start the computer from a Mac OS 8 or Mac OS 9 System Folder on the computer's hard disk, not from a CD, in order to install it.
Did you do that?
ali b

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Hi everyone. Thank you for taking the time to view my post.
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first of all, sorry for my bad english, and lack of capitals : i am using an old version of internet explorer version 5 i guess, which does not recognise the french characters, accents, capitals and the rest...
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