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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 122801" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>I have a Grape 333 Imac I bought just to mess with. Panther 10.3.9 works great on it. Tiger does need a machine with Firewire which the older IMacs did not have. If XPF is there that probably is why Tiger installed on it.</p><p></p><p>As far as the RAM, it's not that the bottom RAM slot under the CPU is Smaller Length wise, The room for the ram from top to bottom is smaller than the TOP slot. Mine came with 128 in the Top and 64 in the bottom. I took it apart and was able to fit a standard PC100 SoDimm from my Thinkpad in the bottom slot for 256 and it worked fine. As long as the SoDimm is not real tall all should be fine.</p><p></p><p>If my memory serves me correctly, XPF does need OS9 on the system to run. I think the others are correct. With 10GB you should be fine. And the boot partation has to be in the first 8GB of the drive. Whatever is left over is made another partition and will be a separate drive under OSX.</p><p></p><p>Good luck. If I can help in any way let me know as I do have the same machine right here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 122801, member: 8287"] I have a Grape 333 Imac I bought just to mess with. Panther 10.3.9 works great on it. Tiger does need a machine with Firewire which the older IMacs did not have. If XPF is there that probably is why Tiger installed on it. As far as the RAM, it's not that the bottom RAM slot under the CPU is Smaller Length wise, The room for the ram from top to bottom is smaller than the TOP slot. Mine came with 128 in the Top and 64 in the bottom. I took it apart and was able to fit a standard PC100 SoDimm from my Thinkpad in the bottom slot for 256 and it worked fine. As long as the SoDimm is not real tall all should be fine. If my memory serves me correctly, XPF does need OS9 on the system to run. I think the others are correct. With 10GB you should be fine. And the boot partation has to be in the first 8GB of the drive. Whatever is left over is made another partition and will be a separate drive under OSX. Good luck. If I can help in any way let me know as I do have the same machine right here. [/QUOTE]
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