Powermac B&W G3 install status and questions

Thu Apr 15 14:08:44 UTC 2010

I've been able to install 8.0 powerpc to a G3 with 384M RAM.
Apologies beforehand, there are a few questions.
What is the open firmware command for booting?
Mac-boot repeats a bad partition error.
Should I have created a /boot partition?
Currently, only a base system is installed.

Will it be better to use an older release?

If you need the system stats, I can post them. It will have to be done through a Linux dmesg output.