Can OSX tiger or earlier be installed into a 8600/300 PowerMac?

Hi all,
Can OSX tiger or earlier be installed into a PowerMac 8600/300? I have OS 9.1 currently. If so, will it be easy to install? Thanks for your help.

OS X can only be installed on machines using G3 or later processors. Tiger requires a minimum of 256 MBs of RAM. Earlier versions of OS X required 128 MBs of RAM. These are minimum requirements. OS X requires a hard drive with a minimum of 6 GBs for installation but practically you need at least a 10 GB or larger hard drive. The hard drive must be formatted HFS+ (Mac OS Extended.)
It is possible to install OS X (probably not Tiger) using a freeware utility called XPostFacto (VersionTracker or MacUpdate). However, the computer must still have the minimum RAM and hard drive space.
Because of the heavy graphic overhead demanded by OS X I don't believe you will be pleased with the performance on such an old machine.
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