I recently bought a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet and decided to install a copy of 10.2 on it. I did not have a direct install disk for 10.2 so I ended up using OS X to be installed and then to upgrade to 10.2. During the install the computer froze up and the status bar refused to continue moving. I at first thought this might just be the computer taking a litle bit of time to work through a file. Instead the bar didn't end up moving for a couple of hours. I decided to quicly pull the battery to reset the install. The install restarted and I decided to allow the installation program to erase all data on the drive in order to prevent problems with the partial data from the last install. The run was going to take awhile so I had to leave and I just left it running. I came back to find a white screen with the gray apple logo in the middle. This screen failed to change for about 4 hours. So I decided to unhook the battery again and to restart again. Now the computer is restarted it brings up the white screen with the gray apple logo and it just freezes. Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.

first, turn off all screen savers and energy saving preferences so that the computer won't go to sleep at all. then, try to reinstall os 9 with the highest version there is... then move on to 10.2 i am not exactly sure what to do, but a buddy just did the same thing and he ended up having to work through 9 in order to get 10.2 up and running... i think you do need both of them to function properly