sigh

[Jason McQueen]

Well here is my story:

I get a Beige G3 233 from my job for free and decide what a nice 
opportunity to install Linux. The machines specs are as follows: G3 
233mhz, 2 4gb HD (IBM and Segate), 256 MB RAM, floopy and CDROM, 2 MB 
on board VRAM. So I partion the first drive on the SCSI (the IBM) as 
unallocated, and install 9.2 on the Segate 4 GB drive. I then drag Boot 
X over to the desktop, unstuffit, and place the extension in the 
extensions folder, all the rest goes in the system folder. I click boot 
X, choose the Boot img, enable SCSI and away I go.. I format the drive 
using Disk Druid as Follows: First is Boot (ext2) at 100mb (when I do 
smaller it says YDL likes 75MB+), then comes Swap 512MB, then / (ext2) 
and click use remaining but I also do the math from the graph in the 
graphical installer. So I then pick the packages, and it installs 
perfectly. I then reboot pick Linux, take off the boot img, and set the 
drive to sda6 like it told me too. It tries to start but then gives me 
"Kernal Panic cant load the sda6 partition" so I take the sda6 off in 
Boot X and let it boot I then get a Kernal Panic Reboot in 180 seconds 
error.

Sorry if this is so long, but I have used the search and am at a loss. 
So any help would be appreciated, linux is starting to haunt my dreams 
and if I don't vanquish the demon soon its all over for me :-).

-Jason


p.s. does anyone know of a good PPC CD Distro (I have Knoppix, but want 
to use Linux on my Mac's not my PC. You see Windows is enough trouble 
already :P ) , maybe the install route will only drive me nuts! Thanks 
again