So I purchased this MDD on eBay sometime in the last year. The seller wiped the drive and put a fresh install of Tiger on it. With the machine, I also got the retail DVD of Tiger, still in the box. I didn't do much with the machine. Just played around a little. The other day, I decided to reinstall Tiger because I've never installed OS X before. All the machines I get already have a fresh install on them. I thought it would be a good exercise. I did it. Everything is fine. Then I started thinking about getting Classic to run on this machine. I don't remember that being part of the installation of OS X. I've looked through the DVD and I don't see any install for OS 9 on the Tiger disc. I've got a copy of a retail install CD for OS 9.2.1 and an original install CD for OS 9.2.2 (for iMac). I've never used either of these discs. I thought I'd give them a try. I can't boot either disc (when holding down the C key at power-on). Is this because I've got a FW800 model? In the Finder, they show up just fine. When I try to launch the Mac OS Install on the CD, it says Classic is starting and then gives me some noise about the volume (the CD) being read-only. After that, the Classic icon showed up in System Preferences. How can I install OS 9 on this machine? Quite some time back I copied OS 9 from one iMac G3 (running OS 9.2.2) to another iMac G3 (running Tiger) via an external USB drive. This seemed to work fine to get Classic going (except that I can't boot to OS 9 for some reason -- and, yes, the hard drive has the OS drivers installed). While I can probably do that again, I'm really interested in actually going through the installation procedure of OS 9 on this machine (I don't think I've ever done that either). Any advice that you can offer would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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