Help! Mac Upgrade!

[Gmandese]

Well, I know some of you guys are mac users, and I am somewhat of an occasional user, until I picked up a G4 Power Mac today. The thing is, the guy who I got it from, had put a 8.7gb hard drive on a scsi card, and a 5gb drive on the eide. He loaded OSX 10.4/tiger for me, but used the 5gb as the startup disc.
Now, I get it home, do my first updates, and the drive is full "delete some files". No sh#t!
As a windows user, I certainly know I have to get a much bigger drive, I have 240gigs on my main machine. I'm going to put in a 40 - 80gb dive, and eliminate both old drives and the scsi card, but I need to ask this: Can I transfer the complete install from the 5gb to the new disc and make it the startup disk? In other words, clone it? I know this can be done easily in windows, but I don't know anything about this in the mac environment. I don't have the 10.4 install disk to format the new drive, but I do have a set of 10.3 disks.
Also, anyone have any spare hard drives they want to sell? (don't have to be mac, just IDE drives). I would like to do this tomorrow if I can.
If I can get help on any or all of this, I would greatly appreciate it

 

[herman]

Inkblue is our inhouse Mac nut. PM him....

 

[inkblue]

...am noW waiting for my Quad G5 :yo: Gerry, call me if yoU want to asK queStions... better thaN typing. mind yoU am kinda sick

thanKs herMan... COUGH-couGh :bigeyes2: i hate beiNg siK

 

[Gmandese]

Thanks ink, pm me your number.
Still looking to buy a used HD

 

[inkblue]

718-.... soRry about mY voice :sigh1: :knockedou

 

[Gmandese]

Ink,

Did some cross referencing on the web, the Maxtor diamond max plus works fine in a 400mhz Yikes mac. Gotta set the jumper for cable select, master don't work.

 

[inkblue]

argh... :bigeyes2: are yoU saying some of youR cabLes in the mac dont woRK :scratchch ...dont forget to set yoUR secondary as the sLave k:

 

[Gmandese]

NO! That's what they say to do on the mac upgrade website I went to. They did the upgrade on my exact model. They said the Maxtor worked perfectly, just set the jumper to "cable select" or the mac won't recognize it. I don't have the new drive yet, I haven't tried it!

 

[inkblue]

Hard drives
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/sys/113774293.html

Tech pages:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=20694
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50488

 

[Gmandese]

I saw the hd page, there's another guy with a maxtor 60gb for $30. I emailed him, but he's probably in bed now. If I don't hear from him by tomorrow morning, I'll get ahold of the other guy.
I'm checking the tech links now.

 

[inkblue]

...check ouT the forumS as weLL:

http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=580

:happysad: :afro:

 

[Gmandese]

Ink, I found exactly the utility I need, at version tracker
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13260