Yellow Dog Linux

xeno74 · Post by **xeno74** » Sat Jul 04, 2026 7:24 am

Hi All,

I created a Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 root partition disk image today.

Further information about Yellow Dog Linux: Wikipedia

Download: yellowdog_root2.img.gz (Size: 993MB, md5sum: e6d14891e26576427ba3ad18f501c9a2)

Installation:

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```
gunzip yellowdog_root2.img.gz
```
dd if=yellowdog_root2.img of=/dev/<Your partition> status=progress

For example: /dev/sdb4:
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```
dd if=yellowdog_root2.img of=/dev/sdb4 status=progress
```
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```
fsck.ext3 -f /dev/sdb4
```
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```
resize2fs /dev/sdb4
```
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```
tune2fs -L Yellow_Dog_Linux /dev/sdb4
```

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vim /run/media/amigaone/Yellow_Dog_Linux/etc/fstab

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/dev/sdb4          /         ext3         defaults          0   1

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```
setenv bootargs "root=/dev/sdb4"
```
Creating the kernel modules database:
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```
depmod -a
```
For getting an ip address:
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```
dhclient
```

Have a nice weekend,
Christian

xeno74 · Post by **xeno74** » Sun Jul 05, 2026 12:01 pm

Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 on an X5000:

Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 on a virtual PowerMac G4 AGP:

xeno74 · Post by **xeno74** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 10:00 am

Yellow Dog Linux resources: ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Repos (Directories with the directory repodata):

yellowdog-base.repo

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#generated by system-config-ydlnet
[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 Base
baseurl=http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/linux/yellowdog/yum/6.2/base/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

yellowdog-extras.repo

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#generated by system-config-ydlnet
[extras]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 Extras
baseurl=http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/linux/yellowdog/yum/6.2/extras/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

yellowdog-updates.repo

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#generated by system-config-ydlnet
[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 Updates
baseurl=http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/linux/yellowdog/yum/6.2/updates/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

Configure DNS:

/etc/resolv.conf:

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