I can however already report that it doesn't work with my oldworld machines, a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet and a Power Mac 7300. The following is from the Wallstreet, but it's similar on the 7300.
With both the mdk and benh kernels from the boot folder on the CD, I get an error dialog "I can't access a Mandrake Linux Installation disc in you CDROM drive (MATSHITA CR-174)."
Console 2 at this moment reads:
* loading modules dependencies * PCMCIA: probing PCI bus.. * TI 1131 found, 2 sockets. * have to insmod pcmcia_core * needs pcmcia_core * /tmp/pcmcia_core.o: Read-only file system * warning, insmod failed (pcmcia_core (null)) (1) * have to insmod yenta_socket * needs pcmcia_core * /tmp/pcmcia_core.o: Read-only file system * needs yenta_socket * /tmp/yenta_socket.o: Read-only file system * warning, insmod failed (yenta_socket (null)) (1) * have to insmod ds * needs pcmcia_core * /tmp/pcmcia_core.o: Read-only file system * needs ds * /tmp/ds.o: Read-only file system * warning, insmod failed (ds (null)) (1) * CM: cardmgr/hacked starting, version is 3.1.23 * CM: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices * CM: cardmgr: failed * cardmgr rc: -1 * AUTOMATIC: parameter cdrom for method means returning CDROM drive * have to insmod ide-cd * needs cdrom * /tmp/cdrom.o: Read-only file system * needs ide-cd * /tmp/ide-cd.o: Read-only file system * warning, insmod failed (ide-cd (null)) (1) * have to insmod sr_mod * needs cdrom * /tmp/cdrom.o: Read-only file system * needs sr_mod * /tmp/sr_mod.o: Read-only file system * warning, insmod failed (sr_mod (null)) (1) * looking for ide media * IDE/1: hda is a IBM-DKLA-24320 * IDE/0: hdc is a MATSHITA CR-174 * looking for scsi media * looking for Compaq Smart Array media * looking for DAC960 * /dev/hdc: Read-only file system * could not create required device file
Using the 2.4.18-4mdkBOOT kernel from 8.2 that's still in the "Mandrake Linux Install.sit" on the CD, loading stage 2 works and the graphical installer starts without problems, but eventually fails because it doesn't find /lib/modules.cz-2.4.18-4mdkBOOT (which of course isn't there because the stage 2 ramdisk wasn't made for that old kernel).
-Christian
