Reinstalling Panther on the original ibook?

[ceruleanventure]

A few months ago I purchased an original ibook (tangerine) to use as a back up machine and just out of curiosity. When I received the ibook it was running the latest version of Panther. I have found myself using the laptop more and more and recently the 3 gb hard drive has become extremely tight. Therefore I am going to upgrade to a 40 gb hard drive. I've searched this forum and founds mentions of "firmware updates etc" I want to reinstall Panther on the new hard drive. Is there going to be any problems since the ibook originally ran OS 9? Am I going to be able to just install Panther on the new HD or do I have to do something else? Thanks in advance!

 

[ham_man]

Shouldn't be any problems...

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Should reinstall just fine.

If you have an external drive case, you could also use a program like Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the current internal drive onto the new drive (plugged in externally.)

Or you could even use an OS X install disc and run Disk Utility and use it's copy disk function. (That's how I got Tiger installed on my PowerBook G3 Lombard that isn't officially supported. I installed it on the drive while it was plugged into my eMac externally, then 'cloned' the drive onto the PowerBook's internal drive using the Panther install disc.)

 

[ceruleanventure]

Thanks for the help This is a dumb question but is firmware separate from the hard drive? I was worried about losing firmware updates.

 

[reh]

Thanks for the help This is a dumb question but is firmware separate from the hard drive? I was worried about losing firmware updates.

Firmware is totally separate.