PPC 5400 w/Mac OS 9.1

[Kenneth Browne]

I've split a 20 gb hard disk roughly into equal sized partitions and 
reinstalled my Mac OS 9.1 and other stuff on the Mac side. I tried 
putting Mandrake 8.2 on (have used two or three other Mdk distros 
on x86  architecture) but after rocky starts the GUI installer came up 
in a barely readable coarse form that quit after the first few steps.

So I thought I'd try YDL2.3 I downloaded and burned ISO onto a CD 
and had no trouble with the first part installing BootX. I've got 136 
MB of RAM so I thought I could use the GUI installer. Something 
happened and I found myself in the text based version, and got 
partway through package selection when I decided to backtrack and 
do a default installation. When it restarted I only get as far as 
package installation and when the "overall progress" window 
appears, NO progress is noted. I've been looking at the screen for a 
couple of hours wondering if something could be happening "behind 
the scenes" but I doubt it.

Could there be some leftovers from the attempted Mandrake 
installation that are causing problems? Should I start from scratch 
with using the Mac partition tool, reinstalling Mac OS, etc.? Any 
other ideas?

BTW, this is my first Mac other than a couple of months with an old 
SE30 a few years back. I've more experience with Linux (Mandrake) 
than Mac.***Ken Browne clacking the keyboard in Lee in the 
beautiful Berkshire Hills***
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