Can't install OS9 (so as to download iMac Firmware update). . .

this is crazy. i bought my dad Tiger, to instal on his G3 Mac. So I did the media exchange and got all the discs. but couldn't instal Tiger because I needed to update firmware. which i downloaded. but couldn't install firmware because i only had OSX on his iMac. I have the Mac OS 9 install disc, but it won't install. so i'm stuck. it would cost me 45 dollars to get the mac people to help (they would if we were just talking about Tiger). As the wicked witch said, "what a world, what a world..." can anyone tell me how to install the OS 9? I held down the C key, but there was no destination disc showing.
iMac G3   Mac OS X (10.1.x)   need to install OS 9

Hi, Peter, and welcome to Apple Discussions. Most likely the reason there's no destination disk showing is that when you installed OS X previously, you didn't select the option to install OS 9 driver on it. Therefore, even if the disk is working perfectly, OS 9 can't "see" it, and the installer can't install anything on it.
I've never been an iMac user, but it's my understanding that many people who've installed OS X on G3 iMacs before updating their firmware have gotten into a world of trouble that way, some of them ending up with completely nonfunctioning iMacs. You (and Dad) may have been very lucky so far. That may apply only to higher versions of OS X, though; I'm not well enough informed to be certain.
To push your luck any farther, you may need to boot to your installer disk for the already-installed version of OS X (10.1.x, according to your system info below), and erase the drive again using the Disk Utility for that version — NOT the Tiger version of DU — and this time make sure the OS 9 driver option is selected before hitting the Erase button. I don't know of any other way you can get that driver installed. If you don't land in hot water just trying to do that much, you should then be able to install OS 9 and update the iMac's firmware. After that, you'll be free to install Tiger.

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