New iMac G5 but no classic support in Tiger?

I have just bought a new iMac G5 20" with the latest Tiger 10.4x. When I want to install a peripheral or Quark from my old Os 9.2.2 it say "I do not have a version of Mac Os9 installed that supports classic or later." in the pop up window. I hit the ? button and it tells me to install from disc 2 the support files. When I do that it tells me there is nothing to install.
A greyed out icon appears in the menu bar. A widget appears in the widget bar.
I checked the startup disk to see if mac os9 was on it ,it's not.
Do I have a dud install 2 disk? The icon is only an alias for os9 support files.

What constitutes "compatibility" is partly what you mean by the word.
From Tiger's built-in dictionary:
"• (of a computer, a piece of software, or other device) able to be used with a specified piece of equipment or software without special adaptation or modification"
By this definition, all recent Macs (except servers?) up to but not including the Intel-based ones are compatible with Classic, at least to the extent that installing the included Classic support is not considered a "special adaptation."
I think most people would consider something like SheepShaver quite a special adaptation: from what I can tell, it requires both an image of the PowerMac ROM & a copy of the Mac OS, which I presume are not included with Intel-based Macs. I also note it claims only to offer a "varying degree of functionality" with listed systems, among them "Darwin/ppc," but no specific reference to Darwin + Intel support. The only Intel CPU reference I see is to "Linux/ia32 (AKA x86)" so I'm not sure this emulator really should or could be considered a replacement for Classic in OS X/Intel systems, even in a limited way.
If you know otherwise, I'm sure that info would be of great interest to readers of this thread.

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