XPostFacto Tiger Install issues on iMac 350MHz

Sorry if your not allowed to post this here. :P
I tried installing Tiger on my iMac with xPostFacto 4. The first 2 attemps failed, and on the 3rd, it rebooted, only to be followed by a kernel problem. I tried again today. I got the Apple logo, followed by this:
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Help? Thanks.

Tiger may be looking for more RAM. I've heard reports of the install failing with less than 256MB RAM installed.

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