From-Scratch Tiger install and Classic

I recently tried to upgrade my iMac to Tiger. I got disk errors, the phone tech said I had to erase and install.
So, I erased and installed, and now I can't get Classic to work.
When I put in the Software Install and Restore disc that came with my iMac, and run the Install Applications & Classic Support program, it runs through it's little thing, finishes up, and then pops up a screen that sais "Welcome to Mac OSX Follow these instructions to restore software on your computer."
When I click on the Continue button, it asks me for my admin password, and then it brings up a window that sais "Insert the disc labeled with this illustration" [picture of a CD icon above a big dot], and a Quit button.
That disc is already in the drive. If I eject it and put it back in, nothing happens, it just sits there at that window asking for the disc.
How do I get Classic back onto this computer? It came on the computer, and was working just fine before I tried to upgrade to Tiger.

That's what had me confused, too.
The DVD disc is from when I bought my iMac. It's 10.2.7.
I had to erase my hard drive to put on 10.4.
What ended up working was re-installing 10.2.7 on my external firewire drive, booting to the external firewire drive, THEN running the "Install Applications & Classic Support", THEN running the Software Restore choosing only the Classic Support option, THEN copying over the System Folder for OS9 back onto my regular drive, then rebooting again onto the regular drive to run 10.4.5.
What a PITA that the Software Restore program from my original system disc won't function correctly in Tiger.
If I hadn't had an external drive handy, I'd have been up the proverbial creek.

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Was this a retail version of Tiger?

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I just found my Tiger install disks. I have upgraded to Leopard but there are some programs I have that only run under Tiger. I had been booting into Tiger from my external LaCie firewire drive, but that doesn't work any more.
Is there any way I can create a startup CD from the Tiger install CDs without actually installing Tiger on my hard disk (i.e. over top of Leopard!).

He is talking about making a Live CD/DVD.. You know, where you boot up and run the OS right from the DVD/CD.
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Click the “Create a bootable DVD” button. Depending on preferences, Clone X may ask for a folder where the disk image used to create the DVD will be saved. Then, Clone X will create a disk image and copy necessary files to this disk image. When done, Clone X will display a list of the applications installed in your Applications folder and subfolders.
Select any application you desire, and click the arrow button to move it to the list on the right side of the window. Clone X displays the available free space on the DVD, so that you can select the applications you can add.
To remove one application from the DVD, select it in the right list and click the right arrow button.
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Is this a huge Tiger bug or a bad CD?
Anyone else noticed this?

Hi, FastMac.
I still suspect it's not a bad or defective CD but the age of the CD w.r.t. the Macs you are trying to boot from it: the Macs probably have later firmware versions than that specified on the CD.
Obviously, if the CD itself has scratches, cracks, or other visible surface defects that could prevent one from booting from it.
However, you can see if the CD itself is bad by mounting it and then running Verify Disk against the CD using the First Aid tab in Disk Utility. If Verify Disk gives the CD a clean bill of health, then it's very likely the firmware level incompatibility I discussed before.
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The error message shown says " The file will be moved to the trash because no desktop printer exists for this spool file."
The "usual" HP printer icon no longer shows on the desktop at startup. Reinstalling the printer driver - as provided by HP - did not do anything.
When I go to chooser the printer is shown there. I select it and close the window as instructed by HP but the printer icon still doesn't show up on the desktop. I am able to open the HP printer utility and can print out a "test page from it but thats all I am able to get.
Since the last time I printed out some files, everything worked fine. I did have a new internal hard drive installed as a second drive by a local Mac shop yesterday. They initialized the new drive for me since I wanted to use it to back up my original, Apple installed drive and files before I attempted to upgrade to OS 10.4 tiger.
This is EXTREMELY frustrating. Did I screw something up? Did my local Mac shop screw something up? Does just starting up the OS 10 disk in order to read it do something? Is this a problem similar to " aborted OS 10 installs?"
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this open firmware issue, how do you get around it? Wonder if it is causing me trouble; i.e. shift and other keys do not work and keeping me from booting with Tiger install. How do I access these keys then?
I did a clean install on a secondary internal drive (device 1) 150GB Maxtor
but it won't boot and "restart" brings me back to install process...
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Hi Ali,
re: this open firmware issue, how do you get around it? I really did not understand the support page you link to...but wonder if it is causing me trouble; i.e. shift and other keys do not work. How do I access these keys then?
Is this a Wireless KB you have? Many aren't recognized until after booting.
Hmmm, you've got the firmware Update needed for the AGP to install/use 10.4...
I think I'd try this, worked for me on 3 such macs...
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2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
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3. Click the Erase tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume, then choose MacOS Extended Journalled, select the Partition tab.
6. Click Erase & look for Security Options. choose Zero 1 pass."
Formatting & Partitioning a Hard Drive in OS X - Tiger and Leopard...
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
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G4 Won't Boot after Tiger install and Belkin USB Network Adapter install.

I'm sure this would apply to my G5 as well.
I installed Tiger on my G4 and it restarted and opened to desktop. Great!
Next, installed software drivers from Belkin USB Network Adapter.
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Screen has firmware 'like" look asking me to type mac_boot.
I do this and the next screen is all grey with two small purple folders in the corner. I believe one was flashing!
Nothing happens just stays there.
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tigerswim, welcome to Apple Discussions.
Did you already have Tiger installed or did you have Panther 10.3 installed? Tiger is not a free upgrade; you have to buy it & then update (for free) using the download updates from Apple. Also, you have to use a universal/retail install DVD (or CDs) to install Tiger. You cannot use the install DVD from another model Mac.

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Mail in Snow Leopard (starting from scratch, fresh install, POP gone?)

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