Need help installing Panther on old mac

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Dickvandisc

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Hello,
I have an old powerpc g3 imac running 10.1.5 that I want to clean out and give to my brother. I would like to erase everything on it and start with a copy of Panther I have.
My problem is partitions. I partitioned the original hard drive and I cannot figure out how to eliminate the partitions and start from scratch.
 
Boot from your install disks. Run disk utility from the disks, select the partition option, then choose a partion sceme (i.e. 1 partition, 2, 3 ,4, etc.)
 
Depending on the iMac, you might be required to install OS X on the first 8 GB of the hard drive, meaning you have to create and 8 GB partition for the operating system.
 
If you partition with OS X (and it sounds like you are), it acctualy has to be a little smaller than 8 GB for the os x system to install, I'd go with 7 or something.
 
The 8 GB limitation applies specifically to these computers:
PowerBook G3 Series, excluding PowerBook G3 Series (Bronze Keyboard). See Related documents below.
Power Macintosh G3 Desktop
Power Macintosh G3 Mini Tower
Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One
Macintosh Server G3
iMac 233 MHz
iMac 233 MHz/B
iMac 266 MHz
iMac 333 MHz
iBook
iBook (FireWire)
 
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