I encountered that weird freezing bug again on my 400Mhz test box, so I pulled all the cards, cdrom, and RAM, and scrapped it.
...Anyway...
I went back to the home of the mafia guy, installed Microsoft Office Suite for him, and hauled his old box to my house, where I promptly set it up. The good news is that it booted up into Windows 98, but proceeded to BSOD directly after that, but that's ok, I wasn't planning on using Windows 98 anyway. I replaced the 64Mb stick of RAM with a stick of 256, effectively quadrupling the available RAM, tossed in a Gentoo minimal install cd, and waited...and waited...
The livecd was hanging when it tried to mount the cdrom to a mountpoint (probably in RAM, somewhere) for about 10 minutes, than offering to let me select the root device (which I couldn't do), or to drop me to a shell (ash). Once I was in the shell, I looked at dmesg, which revealed a bunch of "Unable to Read" messages in relation to the cdrom, so I chucked a new(er) one in, popped in a cd, and it loaded lickity split!
Now I'm installing gentoo 2007.0 again, and praying that it works. ;-)
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