Some of the things I have come across with the APS Technologies 603e 200mhz
system and LinuxPPC are as follows:

1. You should not, with version 4 of the LinuxPPC software, use partitions
   which are larger than 2.0GB.  In fact, using 1.0GB partitions are even
   better.  At sizes greater than 2.0GB the system will freeze for a few
   moments and then continue.  After a while though the system will actually
   crash or begin to give hard disk errors.  At the 2.0GB partition size the
   system still freezes up for a few moments, but it does not seem to experience
   the disk problems.  At 1.0GB I have never had the system freeze up.

2. When partitioning the hard drive (I used a 5.7GB Maxtor drive) I found out
   that you should never ever put the swap partition first.  Always make it the
   last thing on the hard drive.  When in the first position, no matter how
   many times I told the installer to skip the swap partition, it would always
   use the swap partition to install the system.  So just put it last and
   forget about it.

3. I have always found it best to install everything onto the first disk drive.
   By everything I mean /root, /dev/, /home, /usr, and whatever else.  Once
   installed they are easily moved to the other disk drives.  For instance,
   I created six partitions:

        /hd5    =       Where everything is installed
        /hd6    =       (Becomes /home)
        /hd7    =       (Becomes /src)
        /hd8    =       (Becomes /opt)
        /hd9    =       (Becomes /usr)
        /hd10   =       /swap

   Once the installation is finished, you just do this:

        %cd /home
        %mv * /hd6
        %cd ..
        %rm -rf home
        %ln -s hd6 /home

   This creates a symbolic link so when you do a "cd /home" you are taken
   to /hd6 instead.  Doing the above (instead of creating all of the partitions
   with /home, /usr, etc... up front still gives you the same results but it
   seemed to eliminate all of the problems I had when I attempted to do it the
   other way around.

4. Partitioning the disk drive can be accomplished either under the Mac's OS or
   through the use of pdisk.  Pdisk is fairly easy to use once you've completely
   screwed up your hard drive at least once.  (Actually, I'm joking.  I've
   never had any problems with pdisk.  :-)  )  Just make sure you are working
   with the correct disk drive.  So the cardinal rule is - ALWAYS PRINT OUT
   WHAT THE PARTITIONS ARE _BEFORE_ YOU MAKE ANY CHANGES.  If they don't look
   right it is always better to get OUT of pdisk, go back to the installation
   software, make sure you've selected the correct disk drive, and THEN start
   making changes.  :-)