iMac G3 Will Not Boot Linux CD

[Noah0504]

I just bought a iMac G3 off of eBay to have a new toy to tinker with. I've tried booting form the Debian PPC Net-Install CD and the Ubuntu 8.10 PPC CD -- neither will boot (or be mount for that matter). However, I burned a copy of Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 10.3 and they mount and boot fine. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?

[tiresia]

Do you have more info about your mac? Did you download the right installer image (PPC)?
Burn the image with the Apple Disk Utility at very low speed

[Noah0504]

I have downloaded the PPC images. I burned copies of Mac OS 9 and X to see if perhaps the drive just didn't like CD-Rs; they booted fine. Mac OS X doesn't even mount the CDs when they are inserted. It's very odd. Also, I'm burning the CDs from my windows machine as the only Mac I have at the moment is the old iMac G3 which I want to put Linux on.

[Noah0504]

Okay, the iMac G3 has a CDRW drive that was initially not wanting to burn a CD (perhaps it was just Disk Utility), which is why I was using Windows. I was finally able to burn the image on the Mac, and it worked like a charm. I wonder what difference it even makes.