White screen - no startup after software updates 2007-007

I cannot start my mac g4 following a software upgrade I did last night. There were a series of upgrades. I just get a white screen and it will not boot. In the meantime, I cleared a partition on a second drive on the same machine and installed 10.4 on this and have used it to start up and look at the other drive. I have been backing up files onto one of my external drives but running out of disk space. I am really concerned since all my apps are on the original volume and I don't believe I can just transfer them. Problem is my partition on the drive I set up is also small (about 10gb) so thats not much room for anything more than the os plus a bit. Should I attempt to fix the original volume, should I try an archive and install, some advice really appreciated. Many thanks.

Hi there. Thanks for your advice. It is not practical to back up everything and I have backups of the files that are important but no one really wants to loose anything when you are confronted with making choices like this.
That said, I think some responsibility falls on Apple's shoulders to ensure that the older machines will update properly since it appears there are many g4's still in service. I have located another post similar to mine today that indicates this is not isolated to me - which leads me to believe it may just be a bad update.
Obviously there was some adverse effect from the new software since the system was good until the reboot with the updates. While I shouldn't expect this to occur, I get you're point about being prepared in the event it does. From my perspective, this experience is something that you'd expect from $MS. I have never had this type of experience after using a Mac now for almost 10 years. Worst case was a failing second drive (Maxtor) that I installed - but was able to recover the data using the Carbon Copy app.
In any case, I appreciate any replies and am hopeful I'll have recovered by the end of the day . Many thanks.

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