Installing Panther


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Hi,

I'm getting hold of an 'old' G4 500Mhz to replace my even older Pentium III 500 PC. I've had a little bit of experience with Macs before, but not much. I'm going to install OSX 10.3 on the G4 and I was considering partioning the HD into two drives, one for the System OS and one for everything else, so I can scan/fix the second partition using Norton without having to boot from the CD. Does this sound like a good idea? If so, how much space should I give the OS? I think the HD is 20Gb... so how should I distribute the space?

Also, are there any other essentials that I should know, such as websites to visit or programs to install?

Thanks!

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My Panther install is about 1.1gb, I guess you should give it room for a swap file the same size as your ram too.

iLife '04 is a smart set of apps, recommend getting a build of Firefox too :)

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Good news on the Mac mate (Y)

Regarding you wanting two partitions, remember your not using Windows anymore so separating the OS from the Apps & Data is not usually necessary.

Stay away from Norton I've heard bad things about that program, use the default OS X tools al? Disk Utility, and get hold of MacJanitor to do some other good house keeping.

Some other good apps I'd recommend are:

- Transmit - a kick ass FTP Client

- Unision - one of the best Newsgroup readers out there!

- Snood - always time for fun:DD

Search VersionTracker for links:cool::

Good luck matey.

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:ninja: Actually, 10.3 takes about 2 GB minimum with the swapfile; any less will run terribly slow when you start getting low on disk space. If you want GarageBand then you might go for about 4.5GB at the minimum, as it is a 2GB install. While you CAN install Panther on as little as 1.2 GB, this is no good when you need to do things like update the OS. The reason for this is Software Update will d/l and extract the files to a temporary directory to decompress and then install them to your hard disk, so you need space for all the d/l files and the decompressed packages....I have seen this make a 20.4MB install via SU require 94MB of disk space. Also, some programs require that you install them to the OS disk, and you will want space for those as well as any third party control panels, screensavers, or iTunes visualizers. :ninja:

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:ninja: Dont take this to discourage you from partitioning; I can't tell you how happy I have been many times when I had broken my OS and I didn't want to lose the rest of my data. :ninja:

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