Bradbomb.. your statement is not correct

I've been trying for a few days to get a mac we have (new one) to startup in OS 9. The step by step directions at the top of this thread work perfectly. By following them as written, you will get the OS ROM needed to access the BUS correctly to boot from the hard drive natively in OS 9.

Worked like a charm and thank you to the person who posted that step by step!

Was this done on one of the new OSX only bootable machines like the new powerbooks?

i am having trouble with step. 5
% cd "/Volumes/Software Restore/.images"
i type this in exactly as above

and get "to many arguments"
if i leave out the " i get
"command not found"
could you help explain what i,am doing wrong

I'm afraid Brad's statement is correct, more than likely you got the new
software disks but your systems firmware still allows you to boot into OS
9.x because you got an interim system before the full firmware change.

It's just simply not possible on the new Macs to boot into OS9.x at all, I
know, I got one.

-Max