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Yellow Dog Linux on the iMac

Issue 76

From Issue #76
August 2000

Aug 01, 2000  By Stew Benedict
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A guide to installing and running YDL on a power PC.
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YDL commands

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Submitted by Paul J. (not verified) on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 13:21.

Hi,

I'm no linux expert by far but for Yellow Dog, I don't even know the commands to determine the software level. Something like the oslevel command for AIX. Can someone please send me a cheat sheet with some of these commands?

Thanks, Paul J.

Enlightenment of Yellow Dog Linux

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Submitted by Deacon Nikolai (not verified) on Sat, 02/17/2007 - 22:09.

It is funny seeing Enlightenment 0.16 on that since the new Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 has the Enlightenment 17 Desktop Environment!

Re: Yellow Dog Linux on the iMac

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/28/2004 - 03:00.

Good article but I have been informed that you cannot port Linux to a Mac without first partitioning the hard drive and thus losing all your files. Later you would reinstall Mac OS along with Linux. This article makes no mention of this fact -- is the writer assuming that the disk is already partitioned? Or am I misinformed? Or did I read incorrectly?

Re: Yellow Dog Linux on the iMac

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Submitted by Deacon Nikolai (not verified) on Sat, 02/17/2007 - 22:10.

Ever since version 4.1 of YDL it can partition it and keep your Mac OS X partition untouched, allowing you to install without worries!

Re: Yellow Dog Linux on the iMac

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Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/15/2004 - 02:00.

Yes, it's a whole OS and needs its own space. Coming from the PC world I'm used to leaving free space or expendable partitions for future expansion or upgrade...so I cut the disk in half from the start and when Linux came along I installed it to the unused space (2nd partition). What might work better if you just want to test drive things is what I did at work. Just add another hard disk and install it to that disk. My G3 at work had plenty of bays so I slapped an IDE drive in, picked it in the YD install procedure, and works great. You might be able to do that with an external drive too. (firewire or USB.) The bootloader that was included with YD didn't seem to work...but with the G4 I just hold down option and it lets me select which device (Linux or Mac) that it's going to boot from.

For the PC there are some utilities that will re-size or partition the disk without data loss...not sure if the same exists for the Mac.

Re: Yellow Dog Linux on the iMac

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Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 02/28/2004 - 03:00.

You don't have to lose all your files. Just back up what's important to you. Firewire hard drives are cheap these days.

Re: Yellow Dog Linux on the iMac

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Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 02/28/2004 - 03:00.

Better yet, partition a Firewire drive--install Linux on one partition, and back up your computer on another. Then when you want you use Linux, you can boot from the Firewire drive.

Yellow Dog Linux on the iMac

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Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 03/29/2003 - 03:00.

corection

ydl is only $59

black lab linux is $589

WHERE THE HELL DID HE GET IT FOR $289?

Re: Yellow Dog Linux on the iMac

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/23/2004 - 02:00.

The 9 is right close to the 8 on a keyboard. Thus it would be a likly typo.

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