Thread: OS 10.4 install problems on powermac and imac
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Old October 28th, 2006, 12:29 AM
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The maximum hard drive that PowerMac will support is 120GB. The 400GB that you are trying, needs to be erased (use Disk Utility from the Utilities menu when booted to the Tiger installer)
You will find that you have a 128GB partition. You cannot partition the drive with multiple 128GB partitions, without installing a PCI IDE drive controller that supports large hard drives. (There are also software solutions, but would be questionable to use if you are preparing these for sale, for example.)


You must boot to OS 9 to upgrade the firmware on the slot-loading iMacs. That means you have to install OS 9. Classic won't help you (when using Classic, you are still booted to OS X), you have to restart the Mac into OS 9 to run the firmware updater.
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