Panther on a hard drive larger than 7 GB

First of all the machine specs are iMac 233 Bondi Blue/96 MB of RAM/80 GB HDD.
I read somewhere that in order to install OS X on this machine I would need to format the OS X partition to 7 GB or less. I did that and installed OS X. I am wondering if now I can boot into the CD and delete the extra partition and resize the OS X partition to use all 80 GB? Or am I stuck saving stuff to the extra 73 GB partition? Thanks in advance.

I am wondering if now I can boot into the CD and delete the extra partition and resize the OS X partition to use all 80 GB?
Not without erasing that partition or using third-party software. The computer might not start up correctly if the OS files aren't located within the first 8GB of the drive anyway.
am I stuck saving stuff to the extra 73 GB partition?
Yes.
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