So my new hard drive came a couple of days ago, and Panther just came today. I'm going to install them both either tomorrow or Monday, but before I do I promised my girlfriend I would triple check that I know what I'm doing. 
Thanks to the excellent instructions by rtcrane, I feel pretty comfortable installing the hard drive. After I do this and format it I can then install Panther to this new drive doing a clean install. After I'm finished with this I should have OS 9 on her original drive along with all of her programs and files, correct? The computer will by default boot into 9, and in this mode she shouldn't notice any real differences to what she has now? Later I can go into some system preference folder and change the default boot setting so that she will boot into OS X?
Does this all sound about right? Anything major (or minor) that I'm leaving out? Thanks to everyone for all the help so far. I'm really looking foward to getting her computer up and running with the new OS. I'm sure she's going to love it too. (well eventually )
-Dylan
Thanks to the excellent instructions by rtcrane, I feel pretty comfortable installing the hard drive. After I do this and format it I can then install Panther to this new drive doing a clean install. After I'm finished with this I should have OS 9 on her original drive along with all of her programs and files, correct? The computer will by default boot into 9, and in this mode she shouldn't notice any real differences to what she has now? Later I can go into some system preference folder and change the default boot setting so that she will boot into OS X?
Does this all sound about right? Anything major (or minor) that I'm leaving out? Thanks to everyone for all the help so far. I'm really looking foward to getting her computer up and running with the new OS. I'm sure she's going to love it too. (well eventually
)-Dylan