beige g3 - "FIRST DISK" question

[adrian crisan <acrisan@earthlink.net>]

Hi all,

I'm trying to install woody on a beige g3, 266 some 256 mb and a 4 gig ide hard.
I start the process via floppy, partition the hard, install the base file, however when is time to make "system
bootable" it gives me this error:

"THE REQUIRED ACTION CANNOT BE PERFORMED BECAUSE THE ROOT PARTITION MUST BE ON THE FIRST DISK"

... well I'm lost, I have the 4 gig ide with the following partitions:

/dev/hdd1      Apple_UNIX_SVR2     root     7894463@524353 (3.8G)
/dev/hdd2      Apple_UNIX_SVR2     swap    524288@64  (256.0M)
/dev/hdd3     Apple_partition_map   Apple    63@1 (31.5K)
/dev/hdd4      Apple_Free                Extra    1@524352 (0.5k)


... ok, I'm confused what would be the "first disk"  if not hdd1?

(I installed two years ago woody in a similar machine, and I remember that the
only time I succeded was when I replaced the IDE hard drive with a SCSI ... but now I
want to work around and use the just the IDE ... if possible ... and I want just debian on this machine no mixed use
with appleos).

So, I need help from you guys out there that are much smarter than me; please give me a hint/guide me 
on what to do.

Thanks for help!

_adrian_