Upgrading my old imac to OSX from OS 9.2.2 from an external cd drive

Hi there
I dusted off my old imac for my son to use which was I think bought around 2000 its blue with a cd load tray. I know its got OS 9.2.2.2 currently. I wanted to upgrade the system to OSX 10.4 from a tiger disk. Unfortunately the cd drive isnt working so it wont read any disks. I appreciate that the drive is a cd only drive however my question is whether Im able to use an external dvd/cd drive hooked up via the usb port to start up the disk from and with luck upgrade the hard drive that way?
When I hold down the C key at start up it doesnt start up from the disk with the external dvd/cd player. The player however does work and the computer can read disks once the computer is on.
Any ideas or is it a dead loss without changing the cd drive?
Thank you for your help in advance
Daniel
Message was edited by: DRS71
Message was edited by: DRS71

On your old iMac, Apple only supports up to OS 10.3.9. Even with that your old iMac is not going to be very snappy.
Secondly, your old iMac will not boot from an external USB drive. Therefore you can not use an external drive to install any OS.
FYI, any future questions should be posted in the iMac CRT discussion area where these old iMacs are discussed in great detail.

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