Newbe Linux boooks?

[Garry Hunsaker]

Being completely new to Linux, I spent the last week making a few fair 
guesses at search terms for Mandrake ( 9.1) to be specific, Kernel 
Panic: ( hmmm I can't find the note I jotted that down on at the moment, 
but it was something like VFS:  Unable to.... 01:03), and then in the 
middle of this having the old Radeon Mac Edition PCI card arrive and 
working out its installation, and then getting to watch this beautiful 
loop of Linux self diagnostics run up my screen for thirty minutes, I 
have come to the conclusion I need to do some hard core basic research.

To that end, what would folks recommend as 'the ultimate your lucky to 
know how to screw in a light bulb' absolute beginners guide to getting 
Linux installed onto a beige G3 333Mhz Mac?  Making some wild guesses 
from what I am seeing in pdisk (nope, I am not even going to try and 
reformat, or tell X Boot which sector is the one I want to install Linux 
on, until I know a whole lot more about what I am doing.  This old G3 is 
the only operating computer I have at the moment. Yes, the old 4 Gig 
Western Digital drive is still here. But, it is only large enough to 
make a solid back up of critical files. (Running TecTool Pro from it is 
way faster than from the CD, and it is fully updated)

Just in case... and I suspect this is why I am having all these 
interesting things occur in trying to install Linux... I have Sonnets 
ATA 133 PCI card with an ATA 133 80Gb Maxtor hard drive. (pdisk does 
report on the Maxtor and all its partitions) Next to that is Sonnets 
USB2 and Firewire card which the installer sees and assigns a number to 
before it gets to the kernel panic, and, as noted above, the last slot 
holds the Radeon card. (I would have installed Sonnet's Trio card to 
free up another slot, but on these REV 3 G3's the machine will not even 
boot a Sad Mac. There is a major hardware conflict according to Sonnet's 
tech folks)

So Guru's of the Linux on the PPC... any good reading recommendations?
Garry lost somewhere in Mid Missouri
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