Well I got it all working, have OS 8.1 installed.

But my current roadblock is getting OS 8.5 on it. I know I had it running OS 8.5.1 before my hard drive crashed so many months ago. I need to figure out how to get there again.

I tried Sonnet's PPC 8.5 enabler boot floppy, but it comes up saying it's not a supported system or some similar message. :'(