Installing Mac OS 9 Classis on PowerBook G4 running 10.4.6

Hey everyone,
I just tried to install Mac OS 9 so that I could use classic but it tried to open classic to install it. The PowerBook is the most recent before the MacBook Pros came out (bought it a month before they came out >_<). Anyway, I tried starting up from the disc and that didn't work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but how can I get this to work?
Vex

Found what I needed on apple.com

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