Apple anyone?…

I was given an blue and white apple G3. I had to add a hdd, memory, and video card. Someone else gave me a copy of OS X (10.3.

I have exteremely limited experience with apple pc’s.

I got it to boot but when I try to install OS X, there is no destination drive listed. I go back and format the the disk into two partitions and then try to install OS X but I get an error “You can not istall OS X on this volume. You can not start up your computer on this volume.”

Does anyone have any insight on this issue?
Has anyone ever installed Linux on a MAC?