Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower

[Ron Murray <rjmx@rjmx.net>]

   I've been having lots of problems getting woody installed on a Power 
Mac G3 minitower (300MHz processor, 128M RAM). Being an oldworld box, I 
can't boot it from CD. I tried installing from floppies, but that tended 
to mostly crash just after checking disk partitions on initial kernel 
load. I eventually downloaded the boot files and saved them on one of 
the two hard drives in an HFS partition, and managed to get the 
installer running using BootX.

   The machine locks up during the installer process. Sometimes it 
crashes early in the piece, once it almost finished loading the base 
system when it crashed, but crash it always does. It's hard to tell 
exactly what causes the crash, but it seems to be complete (machine no 
longer responds to pings, keyboard, anything except the power switch).

   Suggestions welcome. I've done lots of Debian installs on i386 boxes 
in the last eight years, and my main work machine is Debian on Alpha, so 
I do have a fair bit of Debian experience. But this is my first attempt 
at using Linux on a Mac, and I've never really been a Mac person, so 
there's probably a lot I don't understand about them.

   I'd try installing sarge (all my other boxes run sarge), but after 
reading the last couple of months worth of archives from this list, I 
think it might be best to start off simple (unless someone has a good 
HOWTO somewhere).

Thanks,

 .....Ron

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