Downgrade: 10.4 to 10.3

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I just bought a G4 MDD with Tiger already installed but completely wiped clean. I have nothing on it at this point and I need to downgrade to 10.3 for use with some Tiger-unsupported music editing hardware/software.

Is there anything tricky I need to do here? Can I just use the 10.3 install cd and do an erase and install? I've never downgraded an OS before, so I want to make sure that 1) it's possible and 2) I go about it correctly.

Thank you all very much!

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A simple Erase and Install with a 10.3 disc should do the trick.
 
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Is it possible to partition the hard drive and have one partition 10.4 and the other 10.3 and boot up in each when needed? I don't think so but someone might know more then I do.
 
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Is it possible to partition the hard drive and have one partition 10.4 and the other 10.3 and boot up in each when needed? I don't think so but someone might know more then I do.

Yes you can, you can swap between 2 installations using the alt key on start up or changing the start-up disk in system preferences
 
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that's an interesting thought about the partitioning of the HD, but I'd be afraid to mess something up with my audio software as ProTools is pretty finnicky with harddrives. :/

Thank you very much! that's all i needed to know!

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