OS 9 will not start, but its installed

I did a software restore on my G4 flat panel mac os 10.2.8. Now classic will not start. I dragged the system folder for mac os 9 to my hard drive, which was located on the mac os 9 install cd. I am unable to start my computer from the os 9 cd. When I open system preferences and under the classic folder it says select a system folder for classic. Under Hard drive the system folder is highlighted. However, when I start classic, i get this white box which says: The system software on the startup disk only functions on the original media, not if copied to another drive. In the background is the much larger box that always shows up when classic starts. But it doesnt start. the white box just appears and I am completely lost. I tried to install os 9, but it says it is already installed and the white box appears again. Please help.

Medina,
6 CDs is exactly right, these are your restore discs. You should be able to insert the first one and run the restore program. If I could find my copies of the 6 CD's from my old iMacG4 (now given away) I could tell you exactly where to look, but it's can't see the wood for the trees here.
Always the last place you look. And now I see what you mean. And this now explains everything.
I think that the 6 CDs you have are exactly the same as mine, that is they are for a first generation FP iMac. For this iMac you had to boot of the first CD (into OS9 - despite what I assumed earlier). This would explain the presence of an OS9 System Folder on the restore CDs.
Now if you cannot boot from the first CD, it would suggest that these CDs did not come with your iMac. I'd be a bit perplexed as to how you managed to restore OSX 10.2 (in your first post) and now you're up to OSX 10.3.
None of this matters though. With a bit of copying you should be able to get a usable OS9 system folder onto your iMac. You'll need about 5G of free disk space.
On each CD is a Configurations folder. In there is a disk image "iMac HD Disc #", where # is from 1 to 6. You should copy each of these to your iMac internal hard disk, in a folder all of their own. Then mount the first disk image, all the rest should be used as required and you'll end up with an original iMac mounted disk image. You can then copy the System Folder from that to your internal hard disk. Then unmount the disk image and trash the 6 disk image files.
If you need more detailed instructions, let us know.

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