OS9 INSTALL CD not recognizing...

[goad]

So, yesterday I randomly erased my hard drive and reinstalled OS X. I then upgraded to 10.1.4 and installed about 5 apps. Now, I am trying to install OS 9. I rebooted to the install CD, and began to install it. But, when it asked me to pick the drive to install to, it said that there were no drives avaliable!! The selector was grayed out! It said that if there was another drive that I would like to install to, I should mount it.
But, I could find no option anywhere to mount my hard drive. I tried restarting to see if it recognized it then, but it didn't. The help file says nothing about mounting hard drives.
What is going on? How can I install classic?
NOTE: I had OS 9 installed before, and it was working fine. Both OS's were on the same partition as well. The only change from last time was installing OS X first.

[Whitelighter]

I too am having a Major issue. I installed OSX to a formatted drive and upgraded to 10.1. Now I need to add OS9 but the G4 wont recognize either an OS9.1 install CD or the G4 9.0.4 CD that came with the system. It flashes a folder with a ? in it and then eventually boots from the hard drive into OSX. The only CD that I can boot from is the OSX or the OSX.1 upgrade CD. What has happened? The fact that I haven't seen any other thread on this is very curious.

[repro]

Do you have any PCI cards installed (along with the drivers)? I had the same problem with both the OS9 and OS X. After removing all PCI cards along with thier drivers, the installation worked again just fine. I am not suggesting that this is a 100 percent fix for your problem however it fixed it for me.

[goad]

Hey, Whiteliger, your problem seems to be the hard drive not recognizing the CD, whereas mine is the CD not recognizing the hard drive... The problems must be related, though.

As for your comment, repro, I do not have any cards added to mine. I only have the video card... which the computer wouldn't work very well without.

Also, I found in the search two other topics with a similar problem, but it was not answered. This guy: LINK (http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1525&highlight=install+OS9) had the same problem as Whiteliger, but solved by wiping his hard drive, then installing from an 8.1 CD... not desirable.

There was one similar to my problem, that was never answered. Funny, I can't seem to find it again. Oh well.