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One downside with vFAT is that it can't store any single files with a size of over 4GiB, it is a problem if you want to store DVD images.

Yea I got a few spare ex-cases lying around. Seems like it isn't needed though, the internal hard disk has been filled pass 130 GiB, today. (See attachment.) Convinced yet? What else shall I check? By the way, this is one of those 'newer' G3, not the Blueberry, but I believe it is the...

Depends how they distribute it - they could sell iLife 07 but make it only work on Leopard; OR they can be very generous make it work on 10.3+ but bundle it with Leopard for free. It probably turns out to be somewhere in the middle, but I hope for the latter!!!

NTFS - Checkout MacFUSE from http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ it supports allows NTFS under the Mac. Of course this is reverse-engineered since MS does NOT release NTFS's specifications, so it don't expect it to be perfect. DVD - libdcss or something like that has been developed to read DVDs...

You probably have done these things, but nevertheless a checklist I suppose: 1, Have you emptied Trash? 2, You have rebooted... have you tried just log out and log back in? Not quick user switch, but actually log out from the Apple menu from top-left corner. 3, Have you tried "secure empty...

Not necessarily, imagine, "One more thing: now iLife 07 comes with Leopard!!!" or at least I can dream, right? ;)

Well the error says can't convert from native locale to UTF-8, so I wonder what the native locale is.

What about iTunes? Does it uses UTF-8 by default? I have a few French Albums in iTunes and when I tried to import them into a svn repository today it has 'problem' converting French names to UTF-8 encoding??? What's going on here???

Ohh so every time Apple releases an upgrade they have to "upgrade" the Apple repair man as well? :D

What upgrades?

I don't have much of a choice anyway... What if I put it in a external enclosure and connect to it using USB, would there be any limit then? (Not worry about booting up using USB, I can always just use the original HDD for boot up then mount the new external disk.)

So it is really a hardware issue??? :confused: It is all formatted now and installing the system files... so you are saying I shall fill it up pass 130GiB and see if it still works?

Thanks guys. On OpenBSD PPC mailing list, I've found out that the limitation is limited by the OpenFirmware used in iMac G3, so when I insert the OSX CD it can only use 128 GiB. I am installing OpenBSD now which does not rely on OpenFirmware and well, it is now formatting the whole 320GiB HDD...

Actually there is a third way that many people will choose in which I will not go into the details here...:p

They are all opened now I think. (If you see the coloured shuffle that it means they have already did what needs to be done.)

Oh, so say if you have a 300 GiB HDD, you could do something like 100GiB for /, 100 for /usr and 100 for /home and etc. and it will work?

Are they bringing out Leopard? 6G iPod? 2 x Quad Core Mac Pros? Quad Core iMacs?

So is it a hardware limit, or software? It is said that there is a driver to get around this... but if I use something other than OSX, would I need it?

Got this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Steve_Jobs_with_iMac.jpg But it is the (newer?) one with slot loading. I am able to remove its hard drive. Looks like an ordinary PATA to me... now wondering, if there are any hardware limit on how big (capacity) of hard drives this G3...

Ohh I see that's good... it is not like I'll gotta burn 100 CDs... I could just save a CD image for that!!!