Installing Classic/OS 9 on a G4 Digital Audio with OS 10.4.11

Ok, I bought a used G4 Digital Audio some time ago. It did not come with the original disks. I purchased Tiger (10.4) and have been running along fine.
Recently, I discovered a need to run several OS 9 apps. It seems the "Classic" environment is not installed.
I have the retail OS 10.4, but I could not find any option to install the classic environment. I also have a retail OS 9.0 (from when I upgraded my old Performa 6205...remember those?). The 9.0 disk mounts, but will not boot or install the OS.
Is the only solution to find a used copy of Digital Audio restore CDs? Is there any potential harm in copying the system folder from the OS 9 CD over to a hard drive partition and trying to boot from it?

Hi, Richard. You can use a retail OS 9.2.1 installer CD to install a bootable OS 9 on your G4 DA, but no earlier version, nor any model-specific installer disc designed for another Mac model, will do.
Copying the System Folder from your OS 9.0 CD won't do any harm, but neither will it work, for two reasons: that System Folder only starts a compatible Mac when it's run from a CD, not from a hard drive; and your G4 DA won't boot under any circumstances to any OS version lower than the model-specific OS 9.1 build that was shipped with it.
For use only as Classic within OS X, you can copy the OS 9.1 or higher System Folder from another Mac to your hard drive. It will not be bootable.

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