booting from CD results in freeze

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I am working on a mirror door G4 867 DP with mix+, has 768 megs of ram. Apparently no firmware update is needed.

Right now os 9 and os 10.2 are installed on the system drive, both of them boot fine.

I have the original 10.2 installation CDs and a 10.3.2 retail package.

If I just launch the installer in os 9, an error message says it failed to boot from CD. When booting from the CDs (10.2 or 10.3), it holds at the grey screen with the grey wheel spinning. and once it made it to a blue screen with a 'preparing installation volume' after 10 minutes, but saw no change afterwards.

Can I install from os 10.2 onto a partitioned volume if I have the passcode, or do i still need to boot from the installer? Any advice in dealing with the install CDs would be appreciated.
Thanks