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PowerMac G4 updating to Tiger
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IMacQuarker
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MrSal20
Put the mouse pointer on the hard drive icon and double click to open.
Look at the bottom, it will tell you how many items are on the hard drive and how much storage is available.
Hope this helps
IMacQuarker
Put the mouse pointer on the hard drive icon and double click to open.
Look at the bottom, it will tell you how many items are on the hard drive and how much storage is available.
Hope this helps
IMacQuarker
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When you upgraded to Tiger, did you reformat the drive with Disk Utility or something? From what you have mentioned, you may have formatted the drive as a 19Gb partition.
Partitioning is good if you know what you are doing.
Post back more specifics so we can figure out what you have done.
....JIM....
Partitioning is good if you know what you are doing.
Post back more specifics so we can figure out what you have done.
....JIM....
IMacQuarker
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MrSal20
Look at the desktop, if you have partitioned the HD it will show an icon for each partition. Also if you open disk utility it will show mounted volumes and if there is a partition.
I would run disk repair and see what that says.
IMacQuarker
Look at the desktop, if you have partitioned the HD it will show an icon for each partition. Also if you open disk utility it will show mounted volumes and if there is a partition.
I would run disk repair and see what that says.
IMacQuarker
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IMacQuarker
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MrSal20
I think you need to get the original disks and install from there, maybe your image is corrupted.
IMacQuarker
I think you need to get the original disks and install from there, maybe your image is corrupted.
IMacQuarker
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ObviousTroll
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MrSal,
It sounds like people are missing the clue you gave them.
It sounds to me like the hard drive was previously partitioned into a small 19gB partition and a larger 149gB one. I would guess that, previously, the OS was installed on the big partition and the small one was used for something else - Linux, maybe.
Anyway, when you installed Tiger, it installed itself on the smaller partition.
If you open Disk Utility and click on the 149 gB partition, can you mount it? I'm betting you can and that it still has Panther on it.
It sounds like people are missing the clue you gave them.
It sounds to me like the hard drive was previously partitioned into a small 19gB partition and a larger 149gB one. I would guess that, previously, the OS was installed on the big partition and the small one was used for something else - Linux, maybe.
Anyway, when you installed Tiger, it installed itself on the smaller partition.
If you open Disk Utility and click on the 149 gB partition, can you mount it? I'm betting you can and that it still has Panther on it.
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