OS9 on Blue & White G3 Tower?

Hello
My brother has a G3 blue & white tower. His problem is how to get OS9 to boot on it. He wants to play os9 games on it but we can't get the os9 cd to boot to install it. It doesn't even have classic installed. How would we go about this? It currently has 10.3.9 installed.
Any ideas?
Music Luver ♫♬

Hi, Music -
Since all B&W G3s shipped before the release of OS 9, there are no original Software Install or Software Restore CDs for OS 9 that will work with that machine (all such CDs are specific to the model with which they originally shipped).
However, that machine should be able to boot to and use any retail OS 9 Install CD. All OS 9 retail disks have a white label with a large gold 9 on them, and came in versions of OS 9.0, 9.0.4, 9.1, and 9.2.1.
Unfortunately there was one CD released as an upgrade for OS 9.2.1 - as I recall, this disk came with the original disk set for OSX 10.1. It was intended to be used to update a Mac with an earlier version of OS 9 already on it, and is not only not capable of installing a complete OS, it is not bootable. I say 'unfortunately' because it, too, has a white label w/ gold 9.

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