Installed 10.4 first, 9.2.1 can't see a disk to install

Hi all,
I am installing 10.4 and 9.1 on my G3 PowerBook (Pismo, Firewire). I installed 10.4, but I cannot install 9.1 as it says there is no volume to install - the pull-down menu is greyed-out.
I partitioned my drive using Disk Utility of the 10.4.3 install DVD. I have 2 partitions, both Mac OS Extended (Journaled), the first for 10.4, the second for 9.1. The first I did not check the "Install Mac OS 9 Drivers" box, but the second I did. Looking at Disk Utility now, it does not show "Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed" for either partition, nor do I see any option to add them. Does the "Install Mac OS 9 Drivers" box need to be checked for all partitions in order to have them installed on any? Is there any way to add them now? Is there another way to get Classic to work, perhaps by just copying the folders from another system that has a proper 9.x installation?

OS 9.x installed without OS 9 Drivers (on root level of hard disk drive) would
still give you a possibility of a working Classic environment under OS X; this
is because OS X doesn't see OS 9 as a bootable volume, & uses it differently.
However, in a computer which supports OS 9.2.2, if you expect to run the
computer from that Mac OS, you need to have OS 9 Drivers on the HDD
before you install anything; or have the OS 9 Drivers installed via OS X
10.4's initial setup, where it asks if you want them; thus the checkbox.
If OS 9.x were installed first, then setup for that would give you Drivers for 9.
But you can't add them later on; they are on the root level of the hard drive.
The OS X system, as the primary one, will add new files to the OS 9 system
when used as Classic under OS X; so you will see other/different items in
the Mac OS 9 system folder to reflect support for Classic vs. OS 9 boot...
However, OS 9 will work much better with the limited resources of an older
Mac when it can run the computer by itself; if you use vintage apps directly.
There is a way to reformat the computer's hard disk drive and also have the
OS 9 Drivers put on there; and if you had a clone on external hard drive of
the OS X system and other (everything) you could clone it back to the Mac.
Anyway, don't have too much fun...
Good luck & happy computing!

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