Mac OS X Panther install/boot

Hello,
I am from Germany and my english ist'n that good. I hope you can still understand me.
I've got an iMag G3 Indigo, 350 mHz, 192 MB RAM. First it hat 64 MB RAM and I adeted 128 MB ram. Now I want to install Mac OS X Panther. Everything works fine untill it says "There were errors while installing..please try again...". So I lookes wat the failure was. Than I found out that I had to remove 3rd Party RAM. So I did it. But then I have onlly 64 MB Ram left. And the Panther CD won't boot because the minimum System Requirement is 128 MB RAM.
now I can'T install it and with 3rd party RAM it doesn't install properly.. can someone help please? I hope you can understand my english loL

Hallo muuhh,
erstmal: WILLKOMMEN!
Das ist wahrlich ein Problem. Panther ist extrem empfindlich wenn es um RAM geht, das auch nur marginal ausserhalb der Qualitätsrichtlinien von Apple liegt. Probier' mal nur den 128MB Baustein drinnen zu lassen.
Ausserdem musst du unbedingt VOR dem Upgrade deine Firmware upgraden: Mac OS X: Available firmware updates

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