[gentoo-ppc-user] any tips for old world?

["Bartosz Zaród" <Bartosz@Zarod.pl>]

What do I want:
To install Gentoo Linux and then PostgreSQL on my OldWorld Machine. CLI 
only, no GUI needed. Maybe some apache or proftpd later.

Hardware:
Apple Power Macintosh 9500
Two 604e 180 MHz processors
544 MB RAM in 12 slots
Additional realtek pci ethernet controller 100 Mbps
PCI USB controller
Formac ProMedia 8 MB graphic card with VGA connector
1 GB IBM SCSI 50 pin hard disk drive
3 GB QUANTUM SCSI 50 pin hard disk drive
Apple SCSI 50 pin CDROM drive

Software:
System 7.5.3 US
BootX 1.2.2

Troubles:
I tried gentoo 2005.0 LiveCD and 2004.3 LiveCD, after launching a first 
start I receive two penguins on the black screen and machine reboots 
after 10 minutes or so.
I found an old CD in my collection - gentoo 1.4 final PPC
It boots but sees no sda nor sdb drives.
I can fire up linux from this LiveCD, set up network interfaces - both 
built in and additional. I can start sshd. and that is all.
I tried to find solution in the internet.
The only path I found was ppckernel.org
Stable 2.4.30 and official 2.4.29 kernels try to boot, see my sda and 
sdb drives, even partitions on them. But then they do not mount a CD 
and when they try to cp the filesystem from a CD system kills init and 
goes out with kernel panic.
I suppose I should have another initrd RAM disk file to work with them 
or use some other LiveCD I do not have.
Or maybe I can start with G3G4 kernel and 2005.0 gentoo but I need to 
pass some additional parameters in BootX ????
I found Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 that starts on my machine but it uses 
X11 with its own installer and my unsupported graphic card shows 
something on the screen and I am unable to read the letters.

Does anyone use gentoo with Old World Mac? Can I have any tips from you?

Regards
Bartosz Zaród
(Mac-troll, newbie to Linux)


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