Making a Mac OS 9 installer CD from a backup...?

Hello! I have a MacBook Pro with Leopard, and a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet with OS 8.6. I am trying to upgrade the Powerbook to OS 9. The problem is, I have misplaced my OS 9 Installer CD which I got new with another Mac a few years back. Luckily, I did make a copy from that CD which I still have on my computer. Is there a way that I can take this copy .dmg and make a new OS 9 installer CD from it? I've spent the past 3 days trying to figure it out, and I have had no luck. Thank you!

I've tried this already, the G3 rejects everything. Even when I put other things on the CD-R (like applications). When put the CD in the drive, it pops up with a message that the disk can't be used because it is locked or something, and it has to be initialized. When I click "Initialize," it tells me that it has to erase the disk. When I agree to that, it immediately spits the disk out. I think that my MacBook is putting the CD's in a format that the G3 can not read, but I have no idea how to write the CD in a format that the G3 will accept.

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