For the record, I tried the installation last night and everything worked fine. No problems at all. The only issue would be that the graphical side of OX ran rather slow and jerky but apart from that... no problems!
Thanks for everyone's advice.
I've got an old G3 Powerbook (bronze keyboard, no firewire, family no.5743)
Is it going to possible to upgrade to OX 10.2 on this machine and is there anything I need to be aware of? Someone mentioned something about a possible firmware update but after checking on the Apple site I've become...