I have a similar machine, clocked to 300 MHz, running pretty good with 9.2.2 as well as 10.2.8. The 80 GB harddisk is partioned, and with the help of xpostfacto you can work around the 8 GB issue, easily.
Once I installed the dantz retrospect software that came with a Maxtor OneTouch drive. Big mistake, the machine was like dead, not bootable anymore. It took several days to find all information to reanimate the computer. A complete reset of any PRAM setting was necessary.
To obtain this, you need to
1. unplug the power supply
2. remove the PRAM battery
3. find and depress a tiny little reset pushbutton on the mainboard for a while. This hidden reset button is located in the neighbourhood of one of the expansion card slots.
You could perform this mainboard reset to exclude a corrupted PRAM as a cause of the trouble.
Once I installed the dantz retrospect software that came with a Maxtor OneTouch drive. Big mistake, the machine was like dead, not bootable anymore. It took several days to find all information to reanimate the computer. A complete reset of any PRAM setting was necessary.
To obtain this, you need to
1. unplug the power supply
2. remove the PRAM battery
3. find and depress a tiny little reset pushbutton on the mainboard for a while. This hidden reset button is located in the neighbourhood of one of the expansion card slots.
You could perform this mainboard reset to exclude a corrupted PRAM as a cause of the trouble.