OS 9 won't install from boot disk

Hi,
I've got a imac G4 with a 400mh processor 80gb hard drive & 194mb ram. I'm running OS X 10.2.8 and I don't have OS 9 installed. I tried to install OS 9 of the boot disk that came with the computer but it failed. Any Ideas ???
Daniel

Hi, Daniel -
...to select another drive or do a clean install.
Provided you are booting to an OS 9 Install CD, or the Software Install CD that came with the machine, it is okay to do a Clean Install. A Clean Install of OS 9 removes nothing - it installs a brand new, 'clean' System Folder, a new set of standard utilities if they aren't present, renames the old System Folder (if there is one) to Previous System Folder, and little else.
Article #58176 - Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9: Performing a Clean Installation
The concern over your description of your machine as an "iMac G4 400MHz" model is that the slowest iMac G4 is 700MHz.
To have an iMac at 400MHz, it would need to be a G3 model.
Perhaps it is not an iMac, but is a PowerMac instead - there indeed is a G4 400MHz AGP model in the PowerMac series.

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