[Tulkas]

I'd really like to go to panther on my iMac rev D (196 mb ram, two 3gb partitions) but I'd rather get the low-down on how well its going to go. I am learning to program so I really need panther to stay in the curve and I hear G3s are much faster on panther.

How much HD space does the installer need for a simple install with dev tools? Will it run with the amount of ram I have and.... is there any way to combine my partitions without losing the data on atleast one of them?

[typoon]

Originally posted by Tulkas:
I'd really like to go to panther on my iMac rev D (196 mb ram, two 3gb partitions) but I'd rather get the low-down on how well its going to go. I am learning to program so I really need panther to stay in the curve and I hear G3s are much faster on panther.

How much HD space does the installer need for a simple install with dev tools? Will it run with the amount of ram I have and.... is there any way to combine my partitions without losing the data on atleast one of them?

A FULL install language packs and everything included of just the OS is about 2.5 gigs. If you don't install the language packs you could probably get it to a gig or so. maybe less if you don't have printer drivers installed.

[bowwowman]

BBSMR.....

Better Buy Some More Ram
It'll run w/196mb, but dog slow. Bare minimum recommended is 256mb, 512 is much much better and 1Gb is H E A V E N

With my B&W, only the suggested installation, plus (1) Epson printer driver and the Dev tools, (no language packs, except english of course) I used 2.8GB of HD space.

That wont leave you squat for free space and/or swap files, so you may want to backup, reformat your drive into one section and then install the OS. Unfortnately, this means wiping the drive completely , hence the back-up requirement.

It's either that or get a bigger HD....

Jag needed about 1-2GB of free space on the boot drive to run effectively, and Panther seems to be about the same, so far anyway.

And yes, Panther is W A Y faster, G3 or otherwise