Restoring OS 10.1.4, 9.2.2 onto an eMac.

Hi, I have recently bought an eMac to use as an office machine but I am having trouble getting it to take the restore disks. It seems to be working fine with the later OS (10.5.6) but I want to be able to use it with both classic and OSX systems. Is there any particular trick to get my machine to accept the restore CDs?
Thanks, Pete.

Allan is correct. Mac OS X 10.5 dropped support for Classic. Your options are:
A.1. Clone your data.
A.2. Partition your drive.
A.3. Install 10.4.11 or earlier and install Classic from your restore discs, and recover from the clone your 10.5 data assuming it will fit in a smaller partition.
B.1. Buy a Firewire bootable hard drive.
B.2. Install 10.4.11 or earlier and install Classic from your restore discs on the external Firewire drive.
C.1. If you have an 800 or 700 Mhz eMac, or one of these 1 Ghz eMacs:
M8950LL/A
C.2 Clone your internal hard drive.
C.3 Reformat your internal drive with Mac OS 9 drivers with these instructions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75275
C.4 Recover from the clone.
C.5 Install Mac OS 9 from the restore discs with these directions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61802
C.6 Boot from Mac OS 9 on the machine with the Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disk. When in Mac OS 9 and you are finished with it and want to go back to Mac OS X, select Apple menu -> Control Panels -> Startup Disk and select Mac OS X.
If your restore discs are damaged unfortunately you will be stuck without Mac OS 9 access at all until you can find the ones that definitively came with your model and vintage eMac.
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