Upgrading my old OS 8.6

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to upgrade my G3 Blue and White which had this configuration:
- G3 400 MHz
- 256 Mb RAM
- HD 6 Gb Maxtor
- OS 8.6
- CD-ROM drive
Now I upgrade its hardware this way:
- 1 Gb RAM
- HD 40 Gb Maxtor
- OSX 10.3
These are the problems:
- When I turn on my PC the screen remains black, nothing happens.
- To boot the OSX I had to press a thousand times the button near the "reset" button, so I come into "text mode", I type "mac-boot" and it works.
- I cannot install the languages package in the second cd (now the OS is in english even if I choose italian during installation) because it crashes every time I try. (and not at the same point)
Somebody can help me??? Thank you very much.

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