If it's already running OSX, there's no need to partition the HD. Only
the very early G3 Macs had the issue where you had to install OSX
within the first 8Gb of the drive. I don't think that that model had
that restriction; and if you have an HD that's under 8Gb, there's
nothing to worry about.
It sounds like the best text editor would be Word X, part of Office X.
(I think it was the '01? '03? version? It's the first Office version
that ran under OSX.) I *believe* that will run under 10.1... Maybe
someone else knows for sure? Word's more powerful then Textedit, and
is 100% compatible with Word (even '07) on a PC.
You could also try an older version of Appleworks, it has a text
editor, and was "universal", so it would run under both OS9 and OSX.
You might consider upgrading to 10.2; 10.2 was really the first really
stable version of OSX, and is more compatible if you want to run
useful apps.
You can check on the LEM swap, eBay, or Craigslist for old versions of
Office, AppleWorks, or 10.2
-Elliott
On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:38 AM, joshuallen wrote:
I just acquired an old iMac G3 (Tangerine!) from a guy. He gave me the
original install/restore disks + backups (OS 8.something), OS 9 full
version, and an OS 10.1 upgrade version + backups of all. It booted up
to a login screen when I first turned it on and so I tried an full
install of 10.1, including reformatting the hard drive. It seemed to
work. Later I read that it's preferable to partition the hard drive,
for OSX, but I can't seem to get that to work. Also, I'd like to use
the machine for writing. If possible, I'd like something with a few
more features than TextEdit, such as page/word count, that would
easily transfer over to a PC, but that might be wishful thinking. I'm
new to Mac.
If anyone can give me some advice on software and let me know if
partitioning is a requirement (and how I'd do it), I would appreciate
any help.
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