G4 QuickSilver multi-drive working 10.4 & 9.2.2 - upgrade to 10.5 ?

I've spent a week looking for this answer, so please be patient with me. I've had MAC's since my first Quadra around '87. Can't give up Claris CAD (and I have XTND CGT with DXF translation - yeah !). Even my HP 5500 HDN and plotter work fine.
I have a Quicksilver dual 800 system with four drives - two ATA, and TWO SCSI. Of course the SCSI have all the "old" Claris files on them.
Is there ANY way to upgrade to Leopard so I can work on iPhone app development and keep booting to OS 9.2.2 BTW - it works great right now. I don't care if I have to boot between the two - lament because Classic environment has been so easy to use - but I need 10.5 and just can't have yet another system on my desk.
Do I just boot into 9.2.2 and copy the system to one of the SCSI drives, then "bless" it in Startup. How do I keep what is otherwise a fully functioning 9.2.2 system as a separate disk ? Or can it keep existing on the same drive as 10.5 and just need to boot between them ?
BTW - have the 10.5 disks for over a year now - and been screwing with this for that long - but now I'm at a point where can no longer put it off.

Hi, Mitchell -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
Question - do you want to also keep OSX 10.4 after you install 10.5? Or is your goal to have only 10.5 plus the ability to boot to OS 9?
If you do not retain OSX 10.4 -
As you seem to be aware, OSX 10.5 does not support Classic. Therefore, there is no point in keeping OS 9 on the same volume as OSX.
You can relocate OS 9 to a different drive, either the other internal ATA drive or one of the SCSI drives, via a drag-and-drop (Finder copy) process. If it were me, I'd pick the other inernal drive for OS 9 - although SCSI speeds are generally excellent, they can be a bit more tempermental than ATA drives.
The result may not even need blessing - if the copied System Folder displays the Mac OS glyph on it, it is blessed. Copy also the Applications (Mac OS 9) folder, the Documents folder that OS 9 created, and all the rest of your OS 9 stuff (don't overlook things lying on the desktop).
About the only tweaking needed would be to 'fix' any aliases in use - copies of those will continue to point to originals on the source drive. These aliases can include one for Shelock in the Apple Menu Items folder in System Folder; perhaps a few in the Application Support folder in System Folder; plus any you have made for your own needs.
Test boot to that copied OS 9 before removing the original from the source drive.
Provided that is satisfactory, you can remove OS 9 from the source drive, then update that drive from OSX 10.4 to 10.5.
Note 1 - as an alternate you could relocate OSX and its programs to a different drive, but this is more difficult in that it involves using a cloning utility, and removing all of its stuff from what would then be the OS 9 drive can be difficult. It's easier to move OS 9.
Note 2 - in this scenario (OSX 10.4 replaced), since OS 9 could no longer be used as Classic, you can remove certain files from the OS 9 System Folder that are used only when it is run as Classic. These files are - Classic, Classic Support, and Classic Support UI (all usually located loose in the System Folder); Classic RAVE (in Extensions folder); and ProxyApp (someplace - location seems to vary). The result would be an OS 9 System Folder suitable for booting, but not for use as Classic.
If you do retain OSX 10.4 -
I would suggest installing OSX 10.5 on its own drive and leave the original OSX 10.4 + OS 9 drive as-is. This may necessitate re-installing some software on the 10.5 drive, since OSX seems to be a bit more fussy (than OS 9) about having its programs on the same volume as the OS.

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