It would be nice to get a look at the Linux-Mandrake 8 Beta on PPC, as it is a good distro on my x86 side...however, I encountered several problems straightaway:
First, burning the CDs never worked. I used both Toast Deluxe 4.1.2, in Disk Image and Mac/ISO modes (burned 3 CDs -- all have data, and can open up in Finder, as well as mount on my FreeBSD and Linux boxes, but they won't boot, and CharisMac Discribe (latest), in Mac/ISO Hybrid mode.
So, having some experience with LinuxPPC and MkLinux, I knew to grab the BootX.sit file from inside of "Tool", uncompress it, and put the file in my Mac OS 9.1 System folder like thus:
vmlinux and all.gz in root level of System Folder;
"Linux Kernels" folder likewise;
BootX Extension in Extensions;
BootX control panel in Control Panels.
Then I ran BootX, changed the ram disk to the all.gz file, made it 32000K in size, disabled video forcing, and pushed "Linux"...
Then, my wonderful experience: a KERNEL PANIC! [oh, sh^%...]
attn: all members w/ Sonnet "Tempo" IDE (identified internally as AEC6260, from Acard) PCI cards: watch out. My Mandrake Beta installation ends in kernel panic, "AEC6260: cannot dereference null point at <some memory address>"...whenever this card is in the slots of my Rev. III platinum G3.
take the card out, and the installation gets to graphical installer, however, I have not burned my CDs correctly, because, the installation always tells me: "This does not appear to be a Linux-Mandrake installation CD"...
my machine:
Rev. III 'platinum' or 'beige' G3, w/ Formac 466 Mhz IBM copper G3 upgrade CPU
U/W Apple OEM (Symbios chip) PCI SCSI card
attached to this are:
IBM 4.5 G SCSI and Quantum Viking 4.1 G SCSI
Sonnet "Tempo" 66Mhz IDE controller, PCI (ACARD 6260 type) [i removed this after kernel panic, unfortunately, my main drives, 2 IBM 45GXPs, are on this!]
Keyspan USB PCI card
using normal apple video (Mach64)
Ok, That's encouch for now
I'm going back to OS X...
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