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Posts: 2564 from 2003/2/24
I'm not even sure if you can USB boot a Mac from the .hdimg (never managed to boot any PPC-Mac from USB).
The error message shows that you still loaded the boot.img from HDD which is 3.18 and won't do for install.
IMO the best way to go would be to download the .iso and follow those instructions from step 1.