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I should have said G3 v2 which is OFW 2.4. I can't say I've ever tried without an IDE drive present. These machines are notoriously cranky and a time or two I've had to resort to an OFW init-nvram to straighten things out. [But I do multiboot several other OSes.]

Hhmm .. I have two machines with v3 ROMs that I can vouch for.

Firstly, the 8GB IDE/ATA restriction is imposed by the firmware and it applies to booting any OS. Once an OS is running, it's subject to the ATA limitation of 128GB (28-bit addressing of 512byte sectors) so partitions beyond 8GB are accessible. For Beige G3s (desktop and tower), I've tried...

There's no SMP support in the m68k v2.2 kernel of Debian 3.0 and I'm pretty sure it hasn't changed subsequently. FPU is required for userspace (something I discovered before I added an FPU to my LC III). NetBSD indeed has FPU emulation but no multiprocessor support.

Very impressive but pretty silly :cool: I too have a Q650 (@33MHz) and I run Debian 3.0 (Woody). That's much more retro and snappy: from a SCSI2SD it boots to console login in just under 2 mins. And it'll rebuild its kernel in about 150 mins. I also run NetSBD 3 and that's even snappier.

So .. here's an image of my original install floppy .. perhaps that'll work for you:

There's already a copy on the Garden. Does it not work?

Yeah - the originals were higher res and they got mashed. Re-uploading. Attaching a .hqx. Nope. I believe it's FPU related as others have suggested.

For reference, here’s most of the original manual including scrawled notes about jumpers from a tech support call I made back in the day.