Bringing friends iMac G4 up to speed...

Hey all,,
My friend Jay who is clueless about anything technical has an early iMac G4 and I thought I would do as much maintenance as I knew how and then show him.
It has 10.1.5 on it 512mb & PC100-222S, 800mhz.
I thought I would start by repairing permissions but have never done this from a start up disk????
It is not an option in Disk Utility on 10.1.5.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Al

I have to admit I wrongly guessed that this was what this question would be about with the title Bringing friend's iMac G4 up to speed.
Panther and Tiger are a world apart from Puma. In fact many applications today need at least 10.3.9 installed (just have a quick browse on MacUpdate).
Personally I didn't cut from OS 9 fully until Panther arrived as Ceetah, Puma; and to a certain extent Jaguar, didn't really cut it.
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