Installing OS 8.6 or 9.2.1 via USB on New World Mac?

Hallo!

I have submitted a Similar question pertaining to the installation of OS X 10.1-10.3 via USB disk in the "Mac OS X 10.3 & older" section, so if you have insight into that please also reply there.

Here's the situation: I have an iBook G3 Clamshell 233MHz 265MB SRAM 16MB VRAM with 1xUSB 1.1 port. I need an OS installed and the only alternative to Mac OS 8.6/9.2 or OS X 10.1-10.3 that is eligible for this machine is PowerPC Linux, of which I can only install a CLI (Command Line only Interface) copy of Ubuntu, which I heavily prefer not to use. I have tried every method of creating the USB copy of the installer, which I mentioned in paragraph three of this post:Install OS X 10.0-10.3 from USB on New World Mac? for the Mac OS 8.6 and 9.2 discs as well. I Have the retail (Green 8.6 disc with large 8 and picture inside the bottom loop) OS 8 install disc as well as the retail 9.2.1 universal install disc (with the large orange 9 on the label), however the CD-R drive is completely shot, as mentioned in the above linked post it can read discs, but it cannot initialize a boot disc, and takes an hour to recognize/20+ min to read a disc sector so the direct disc installation option is completely out.

While unlike the case in the above post I can actually get my 9.2.1 installer USB disk copy to boot, the 8.6 installer copy refuses to even be recognized in the boot selection menu (Option on boot) and when I boot the 9.2.1 USB installer I receive the infamous "The system software on the startup disk only functions on the original media, not if copied to another drive." message.

Again using my CD-R drive is out of the question. I have made sure the image is "locked" before writing the USB disk, set the image permissions to "r-- r-- r--" and formatted the USB disk as "Mac OS Standard" (HFS) before writing, and I still receive the message. Here's the kicker: I've even used "ResEdit" on a separate Mac OS 9 installation to remove the "xboo" resource that checks for media type from the program "/System Folder/System", copied the contents of the install CD to a folder, replaced "/System Folder/System" with the modified version, created a new .CDR CD-ROM master image of size 665,8MB the exact size of the original disc, moved the folder with the copy of the install disc to the existing separate OS 9 installation, blessed the "System Folder" directory, moved it back, filled the image with the disc contents (including modified "System" program), unmounted the new image, "locked" it, set its permissions to "r-- r-- r--" and wrote it directly to the HFS formatted USB disk using sudo dd if="image path" of=/dev/"USB disk number" fixed permission on the new USB install disk, and it successfully booted to the modified OS 9.2 installer from the boot selection menu HOWEVER, upon boot up the installer still displayed the same message: "The system software on the startup disk only functions on the original media, not if copied to another drive." Even though the function to handle that scenario has been removed, and all permission are set up correctly.

Am I doing something wrong? Is it even possible in ANY scenario to install Mac OS 8.6 or 9.2.1 from a direct install disc backup, or via a USB disk/Flash Drive? Or am I going to have to buy a new iBook CD-R drive, and a T6 Torx screwdriver to replace it just to reinstall the Mac OS? Like I said before more details about methods attempted can be found in the Mac OS X variation of this post linked above, so for more info or insight into installing OS X with a USB disk instead of Mac OS please reply to that post. Any and all help or suggestions are appreciated, and I badly need an OS installed on this machine besides Command Line Only Linux. Thanks!