Yes and no to your question. On a Beige G3, OS X will only install on a partition smaller than 8GB, however, it will still recognize the rest of the disk if you partition it in one big chunk and it will be usuable. This only effects the onboard ATA for the most part and many ATA controller cards bypass this issue.
There is a problem with booting the OS if some of it is above 8Gb. I don't know what the problem is. If you were to bypass the 8Gb limitation and installed the OS it could work but subsequent changes, especially software updates could move one of the critical files past the 8Gb limit and cause the problem to appear.
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