Installing OS9 on a separate hard drive that can boot in 9

I am setting up an older computer for my children. It's been several years since I used it and even longer since I booted in OS9 on it or used classic. We still have some children's software that ran under 8.6 and I'd like to see if we can run it in OS9. I have my original disks. I have a MDD Power Mac G4. It came with 10.2 and was able to run in classic or boot into OS9. On one hard drive, I have installed the latest version of Leopard. On the other original hard drive, I'd like to install OS9 along with the software that should run on that OS. I have not been able to figure out how to do this.
Do I need to reinstall 10.2.xxx and completely restore that hard drive and then just boot in 9? Or is it possible to just install OS9 and the software I want?

Tammy in MO wrote:
... I have my original disks. I have a MDD Power Mac G4. It came with 10.2 and was able to run in classic or boot into OS9. ...
Do I need to reinstall 10.2.xxx and completely restore that hard drive ...
Yes, and OS 9 will require a partition less than 200 GB in order to boot. The original system discs you have for the MDD will not boot into an OS 9 installer. You have to boot the 10.2 OS X disc and install the 10.2 system on a partition, not on top of an other OS X system. Once you have the original OS 10.2 on your system, you have to boot into that and then run the /Applications/Utilities/Software Restore application. This will run under OS X and prompt you to insert each of the OS 9 CDs. Once this is done you can boot into OS 9, or specify that System Folder for use in Classic mode under OS X up to version 10.4. Classic support was dropped in 10.5.

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