G3 "Mini Tower", Need help.

Ok, I had gotten a G3 a little while ago for free, along with a HP screen. I am quite tech-savvy, so I booted her up, os 9.2.2 was installed on it. It has 256 megs of ram, the original 10 gig hdd. The hdd gave out after 2 boots, so a I picked up a free 20 gig one. Booted from the os 9.0.4 cd that the guy had. Formated and mounted the drive. All good, also replaced the little battery. Was working on os 9.0.4, and I did manage to get it to 9.2.2. I have tried installing tiger for quite a while, but I NEVER worked. I ended up downloading some Ubuntu PPC disks. They all had problems with partitioning the hdd. What should I do with this thing? I am getting a new macbook in march, so can it tie into any networking with this?

You may need to install the firmware update for the B/W G3 before Mac OS X 10.4 will install on it. Here's a link the Apple Knowledge Base Article with the firmware update: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58374.

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