Linux on new powerbook G4 15"

[Robert Lewis]

Hello,

    I just bought a new PB 15" G4 1 ghz and Yellow Dog Linux.  I am an  
old hand at computers of all sorts (especially Macs) and I easily  
installed another variant of Linux on a Dell six months ago, so I  
thought this was going to be pretty easy.  Forget it.

    I followed all the directions as best as I could, since the written  
documentation differs from what actually happens on screen in several  
ways.  First of all, one cannot install OS 9 on this machine, so while  
I used  Apple's Disk Tool to create three partitions as instructed, the  
second one has no OS on it.  I did make it an hfs 5 gig drive.  The  
third partition is about 28 gig, hfs+, and the Apple CD has no trouble  
installing OS X on it.

    Without going into too much detail, the problem is that everything  
seems to go fine with the YD installation, except the very last step.   
It hangs trying to restart.  There is no choice but to cnt-comm-power  
out of it, which destroys all the YD Linux.

    Now I see on  
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/breakdown/ 
index.php?hw_cat_id=4    that
my PowerBook 2003 G4 (2003) (ATI Mobility Radeon 9600) is NOT  
supported!  Great.

    My question is, OK if it's not supported yet, is that why it hangs  
at  the end?  Can I at least do the partitioning now (please provide  
brutally specific instructions that actually work on this machine) so I  
can use it as a Mac powerbook while I wait for terrasoft people to get  
this machine supported?  (I don't want to have to reinitialize it yet  
again in the future.)

Thanks.

Bob Lewis