Well, I finally did it. For future reference because this effects all beige G3's and early iMacs her is what I did:
Partitioned HD with a 6GB (must be smaller than 8) and left the rest for whatever. I used an ATI Xclaim 3D Pro card that worked just fine. Put 320MB RAM in.
When I first started the install I thought it wasn't giving video, I just had to wait an extremely long time. Finally I would get the OS X blue background. Then the installer would start. After figuring out the partition scheme I went ahead with the instal. I left the CD-ROM on master and put the HD on the other IDE controller as master also. Then everything worked. I tried another non apple CD-ROM that did not work at all. I had to use the 24x Sony that came in the Server G3 tower. The HD is a Seagate barracuda 30GB IDE HD. Since the drive controller is so slow on the MB it doesn't matter how fast that drive is I noticed.
So i feel like an OS X expert now! Although I am not, but we can all pretend eh? Thanks for all the suggestions, I wouldn't have done this without help.
Mike (aka PC Tech)
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