It sounds like you have a CD drive in your B&W G3. They came with a CD only drive. Most if not all of the OS x disks 10.3 and above are DVD disks and require a combo CD/DVD drive of one flavor or another. Back when Apple would exchange ones newly purchased OS DVD for CDs. What would fit on 1 or 2 DVDs would require 13 or 14 CDs. I went that rout once. And only once.
To load the later versions of OSX you will need to change the disk drive or download a copy from another hard drive preferably with CCC. Check in System Profiler to see which disk drive you have. That might be what your difficulty is. Tom -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list