Installing Debian alongside Linuxppc DR5

[Ron Nelson <rdn2@laki.mutagenic.org>]

I currently have Linuxppc DR5 beta2 with 2.2.9 kernel installed on a
powerbase 180 with a G3 upgrade. I have been running DR5 for quite a
while now and I am interested in installing debian-powerpc on a separate
1gig patition on the system. I have searched for info on doing this but
didn't come up with much so I wanted to check a couple of things out
with this list before I dove in head first.

1) It looks like I should be able to just untar the base in the new
partition and the point bootx at that for the root partition. Is that
true?

2) Can I still use bootx with debian? ( I haven't been able to get this
box to boot with bootvars - openfirmware.)

3) Can the two distro's coexist on the same machine?

4) Has anybody on this list done this? Can you provide any pointers?

Thanks for the help,
Ron Nelson