Installed new Hard Drive in iMac G3, can't get OSX to install

I installed a new 40GB drive in my iMac G3 333Mhz Tray Loader, I used the Disk Utility to create one 37.15GB partition called "Machintosh HD". When I run the Mac OS X Panther installer it recognizes my partition but there is a Red Exclamation point on it and it exclaims "You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. This destinationis not within the first 8GB of this hard disk. Does this mean that I can only create an 8GB paritition for the Operating System?

The tray-loading iMac G3s require a first partition of just under 8GB and that's where OSX must go, so you have accurately intrepreted the messages.
Those computers were designed long before OSX was a gleam in it's daddy's eye and, were it not for the 8G partition thing, could not run OSX at all.
I set up three Powerbooks G3s that share that partition limitation. With a smart install of Panther (install none of the printer drivers and don't install foreign language support or fonts) I got the System to right at 2G, leaving nearly six for apps that must be in the folrder and thfor the needed swap files.
The second larger partition is a great place to put OS9, data files (like  music, photo or movie libraries). It is also the best place for apps that don't have to be in the OSX partition. That's usually those with a drag-n-drop installation.

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