How big an HDD

I've got an iMac/G3/500 with 30gbHDD (it's a DV Special I suspect).
Can I replace the HDD with a bigger model and if so what is the bus-max and do I need to create a small first partition for the OS?

The 8GB first partition rule only applies to 233-333MHz iMacs.
It's not an iMac DV Special Edition as those were 400MHz with 13GB drives. It's probably an iMac (Summer 2000) which were 500MHz and came with 30GB drives. Later 500MHz models only had 20Gb drives.
cheers
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