Hello, first of all sorry if this has been touched upon before and sorry if it is a somewhat elementary issue for you!
I have one of the first Mac Mini, with a 40gb hard drive. As it was full I decided to back up my important files and upgrade to Tiger (which I've been running on my other Mac), however this wasn't an option as when I restarted I was met with the "we are hanging" error message. This, I assume, means that my Mac Mini is possibly too old for Tiger. Fair enough, I'll just reinstall the orginal software that came with the computer, which was OS 10.3.7.
I reinstalled the software, selecting "Erase and Install" from the "Select a Destination" pane during the installation process. Upon starting up the Mac Mini I found that with 10.3.7 reinstalled I only had 30.36GB of space. Is this correct, or have I messed up along the way somehow? I realise that I shouldn't have the full 40GB after installing an operating system, but an entire 25% of the hard drive seems like a fairly huge portion of the space. I went back into Installer to attempt to delete again, where I was told that over 7GB of space would be needed to reinstall OS 10.3.7, I didn't want to attempt another "Erase and Install", in case the space went down a further 7GB.
I have one of the first Mac Mini, with a 40gb hard drive. As it was full I decided to back up my important files and upgrade to Tiger (which I've been running on my other Mac), however this wasn't an option as when I restarted I was met with the "we are hanging" error message. This, I assume, means that my Mac Mini is possibly too old for Tiger. Fair enough, I'll just reinstall the orginal software that came with the computer, which was OS 10.3.7.
I reinstalled the software, selecting "Erase and Install" from the "Select a Destination" pane during the installation process. Upon starting up the Mac Mini I found that with 10.3.7 reinstalled I only had 30.36GB of space. Is this correct, or have I messed up along the way somehow? I realise that I shouldn't have the full 40GB after installing an operating system, but an entire 25% of the hard drive seems like a fairly huge portion of the space. I went back into Installer to attempt to delete again, where I was told that over 7GB of space would be needed to reinstall OS 10.3.7, I didn't want to attempt another "Erase and Install", in case the space went down a further 7GB.