Just to share the experience... Moving the drive to the ATA-66 bus allowed me to complete the install and then boot it up. XFDrake then got the GUI working (but now the consoles are invisible if XFree is up, odd)
Note: there appears to be a bug in the text installer because I selected the benh kernel (in individual package selection), but it was not installed. I had to install it later with rpmdrake. Now the next step is to move the drive back to the Ultra ATA bus. This will change the drive from /dev/hda to /dev/hde. so to get past this, i have to change yaboot.conf to reflect the change in device and make the benh kernel default, change the open firmware boot-device, and /etc/fstab ... did i miss anything? -i
