02-26-2007, 12:28 PM

I have three macs and my newest IMAC has OS 10.4.
The other two have OS 10.2.8. I want to upgrade both to be current.

Here lies two problems.

First:
The older imac was partitioned and has OSX and OS9.
I need 3GB of space to upgrade OS 10.2.8 to OS 10.4,
but only have 2GB left on that OSX hard drive. Can I
upgrade the OS9 partition that has 9GB of space left?

Second:
My other mac is a G4 dual processor that had been
partitioned into three hard drives. Unfortunately
the main hard drive doesn't have enough room to upgrade,
can I upgrade to the other hard drive and have that one
as the main bootup?

02-26-2007, 12:40 PM

My guess would be to get rid of OS9 on the G3 iMac, format the drive into one partition and install OS X from there.

About the G4, if you don't want to do the same as above, I'd suggest buying a cheap hard drive (20gb or so.. although hdd's are cheap as dirt now), install that as the master, format/install OS X, and then use the partitioned hard drive as a second/slave.

I'm not too familiar with this, but I'm sure you could archive/install OS X jaguar to a new hard drive, but some one correct me if I'm wrong.

02-26-2007, 02:00 PM

Would that be an internal or external hard drive for the G4?

02-26-2007, 02:04 PM

Internal.

Alternatively.. You could backup all of your data from all of those partitions you have.. Format the drives as 1 partition, then put all of your stuff on it afterwards.