quadra 950 problems

["R.A." <funkaster@mac.com>]

I've been trying to install debian (potato) in a quadra 950, 1gb & 
98mb ram. With penguin 18 and the "linux" kernel that comes by 
default, I got an error -17  just before booting, and after the boot, 
it stops when checking for scsi devices.
With penguin 19 (and kernel 2.20) I get a little further, but it 
stops when trying to load the ram disk:
Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on  00:00
I'm thankful for any help...

ra.-