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I have an old G4 450Mhz PowerPC which used to run 9.1 and I have the disc. When I purchased a new system, I installed OS 10.4.10 on the old G4 as well. Now I have some programs that I need 9.1 in order to run. When I go to install 9.1 from the disc, it says I do not have 9.1 installed (classic version) and need to install it. I am at a loss! I no longer need to run OS X on this system and would like to have just OS 9.1. Can I wipe it out and just install 9.1?

Hi, Jay -
When I go to install 9.1 from the disc, it says I do not have 9.1 installed (classic version) and need to install it.
That message indicates you are trying to run the OS 9.1 installer app (on the CD) while the machine is still booted to OSX.
That won't work - the OS 9.1 installer app will work only when the machine is booted to OS 9.
Since you apparently do not have Classic on the machine at present, the solution then is to boot the machine to the OS 9.1 Install CD. In case you have forgotten how to do that, with the CD in the drive Restart the machine. Immediatel;y press the C key, keep it held down until it is confirmed that the machine is booting to the OS 9.1 on the CD. Note - booting to a CD takes considerably longer than does booting to a hard drive, so wait it out.
Once the machine has booted to the CD run the Mac OS Install app. Select to do a Clean Install - doing so will prevent the installer from being confused by the presence of one of OSX's internal folders (which it can misinterpret as being a valid System Folder, but one of unknown version). Note that doing a Clean Install of OS 9 will not remove anything on the hard drive.
Article #TA43881 - Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9: Performing a Clean Installation
It is possible that after the machine has booted to the CD that the hard drive will not be visible, neither on the desktop nor in the installer's destination selection page. If that is the case, it indicates that when OSX was installed, the hard drive was reformatted and the option to install OS 9 drivers was not selected. In the absence of those drivers no OS 9 can 'see' the hard drive.
This Apple Kbase article gives on possible solution for that, in the section titled "I. Try Drive Setup first:
Article #TA20774 - Disk Is Available in Mac OS X But Not in Mac OS 9
Unfortunately that no-pain method of fixing the issue rarely works. If it does not, then the only solution is to reformat the hard drive. If using OS 9's Drive Setup to do it (while booted to the OS 9 Install CD), the OS 9 drivers are installed automatically. If using OSX's Disk Utility (while booted to an OSX Install disk) to do it, be sure to select the option to install OS 9 drivers. In either case be sure to select Mac OS Extended as the format for the drive.
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