Hi. I'm going to get an 350mhz Blueberry iMac from a friend that has no hard drive. I'm hoping to get this iMac running Jaguar or Panther after I install a Western Digital hard drive.

I've got a couple of questions about this:
1.) It's a 40gb hard drive, does the 8gb rule apply to this iMac?

2.) Will the 7200rpm drive work okay with the iMac?

3.) How do I format the hard drive if I boot from the Panther CD? Right now, the hard drive is using the FAT32 filesystem and is only one partition. I can change this on my PC using FDisk if I need to.

Thank You

go to www.lowendmac.com for a lot of info abotu the Imac.

Thanks, that answered the questions (I solved #3 on my own) Now there's one more question:
Does "7200rpm drives may be too hot for iMacs" mean that they can over-heat or that there may be problems when transfering data?

#1 No partitions needed (8gig rule does not apply)
your imac is new enough for it not too.
#2 7200rpm drives are fin my blueberry imac
500mhz came with harddrive: 20gig@7200rpm
howeverit was lined with rubber on the top side i do
not believe you have to line it with rubber to use it
the temp. should be fine.
#3 Format does not matter you can reformat when
install is being performed.
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