Wallstreet disk format & system reinstall

I've spent a bit of money and time on RAM and HD to be able to upgrade this Wallstreet to OS X.
I think I read some advice wrong, and when I first installed the upgrade 12 GB HD I mistakenly formatted the drive into two partitions - the smaller one being the one for the system software. When trying to install OS X (10.2) the dialog told me that I couldn't install the software on either partition, as the first partition had to be the larger one.
What I'd like to do is start over and reinitialize the drive. Should I have two partitions - the first one larger (say 8 GB) or should I just have one partition for both OS 9 and OS X? I believe I need to have 9 on there first anyway in order to install OS X.
But a further problem is that I can't seem to do an erase and reformat/initialize of the HD, as I get the message that I can't erase my start up disk. I have tried installing the OS 9 CD with the C key held down, but this is where I run into this problem. Disk Utility won't let me reinitalize. Again, what I really need is the start up partition to be larger to accomodate OS X.
Thanks for answers,
k
Wallstreet 233 Mhz processor model with 512 MB RAM (two 256MB Modules) and 12 GB Travelstar HD.
OS 9.0
CD Drive

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You are currently using FAT32. Convert your XP volume to NTFS. You don't need to enable write access in Mac OS unless you want to also write to NTFS - afterwards - IF you so desire.
I found I had trouble with downloading ISO of 4GB though with some browers, but not in others, and more of a problem in OS X 10.4.x than Vista. ie, there may be other things going on with this than just FAT vs NTFS.

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