10.3 clean install hangs on "Base System Part 2"

I just recently acquired a Power Macintosh G3 B&W revision 2 with a 400MHz PPC G3, pretty much bone stock except that I've upped the RAM to 448MB using some old pulls that I had lying around from previous iMac upgrades. The factory 8.6 install recognized the RAM, so I went ahead and ran the latest firmware updater from Apple. The updater said I was already running the latest firmware, so I proceeded with wiping the HD and preparing to install 10.3 from the retail install discs. I can repartition and erase the HD, choose that HD as the installation drive, and customize the install in order to remove things that I won't be needing/using like additional language translations and Internet Explorer. The installer hangs though almost immediately; it makes it through preparing "Base System Part 1" but hangs as soon as it begins preparing "Base System Part 2". I thought perhaps that the HD was in bad shape since it is 10 years old, so I pulled that drive and installed an extra 40GB Maxtor that I had lying around (I also have an extra 10GB WD if all else fails) with the exact same results. Everything seems to work fine except for the installer hanging. I was able to get a partially functional 9.1 install using my iBook's backup disc (which amazed me greatly considering that it shouldn't have worked at all), but seeing as how that disc was made for the iBook, the install is lacking quite a bit of functionality (can't update to 9.2 and then 9.2.2 for example); besides, I'd rather have OS X anyway. My long term goal is to install 10.3 and then update to 10.4 and eventually 10.4.11 (I have a lot of other hardware upgrades in mind, but I can't start in on those until I have the system booting into 10.3 first / not about to spend money until I have a working system ;] ).
I've tried to be as specific as possible, but if I need to clarify anything, please let me know. As my details state, I also have an iBook FW SE happily running 10.4.11 and a MacBook White with the latest and greatest. I'm not very technically inclined, but I can handle even the most difficult of upgrades (that HD in my iBook was NOT easy to get to, but it sure was fun!). Any help is better than where I am right now. I'd really like to install directly onto the machine, but I do have the necessary hardware to install from my iBook to an external HD and then relocate that drive to the B&W.
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Actually, this is in fact the revision 2 system with the "402" chip, which is why I was very excited to end up with this machine. From what I've been able to gather since this B&W found its new home with me, the whole B&W line was kind of flaky all around (with the non-402s being even more flaky).
- Update - I used an external firewire enclosure to install 10.3 on the original 6GB drive courtesy of my iBook FW SE. I swapped the 6GB drive back in and removed the 40GB that I had been testing in there, so the system is stock except for the RAM, which I may try reducing to Panther's minimum tomorrow just to remove all variables. I get the Apple logo on the screen, but it immediately changes to the "circle with a line through it"; almost makes me think it's a firmware problem, but the updater indicated that the firmware was already up to date. I may also try to get 9.1 back on there again tomorrow and just double check the firmware again.
Incidentally, is there an easy way of figuring out what firmware version the system is currently running without having an OS installed? I know on the iBook you can hold down [command]-[option]-[O]-[F] to get into open firmware, but I haven't tried it on this machine yet, nor do I know how to check the version number from there. I may end up putting in separate IDE card in the end, but I would much rather use the onboard; it would save a few bucks in the end, and for my purposes the performance penalty won't make much difference (i'm mostly setting it up as a backup computer right now for basic web-browsing and whatnot / nothing fancy right now, just the basics).
Now after re-reading your post though, it occurs to me that I don't have a solid three-drive shelf :P. I have two plates (one toward the front of the system and one in the middle) meant to hold SCSI drives, and one two-drive bracket toward the rear of the machine designed to hold either a SCSI drive or up to two IDE drives (although the upper portion is a little too wide to actually mount an IDE drive appropriately). It does have the IDE controller chip marked as "402" and a manufacture date in LATE 1999. What gets me is that it hangs on the Panther install while running stock and won't boot into Panther even after it has been forced onto the stock hard drive.
You do have me thinking though, which is certainly the first step to figuring it out. If I do end up having to put in a separate IDE controller, can the B&W boot from that? Probably a silly question I know, but from what I understand, it can't boot from a hard disk on it's secondary controller although it can boot from the optical drive there :P, which indicates to me a VERY finicky computer. lol

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