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*** Running Yellow dog linux 4.0 on the nintendo gamecube ***
***           by BreeZe <breeze@binbash.org>              ***
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this is a small HOWTO on how to get the yellow dog linux distro running on your gamecube.

- first download the gc-linux project gc kernel and the yellow-dog-base
- create a minidvd with the linux kernel (zImage.nfs.dol) or load the kernel via psoload or whatever
- install a nfs server on a seperate server on your network
- create a export dir on the nfsserver called /nfsroot
- extract the yellow dog base on the nfs server in the /nfsroot dir (tar xvzfp yellow-dog-4.0-base.tgz)
- in the /nfsroot/cube dir edit the following files en config them with your needs:
  /nfsroot/cube/etc/fstab (put the ip of the nfs server here)
  /nfsroot/cube/etc/resolv.conf (put your favorite nameserver here)
- now run the linux kernel on your gamecube
- if yellow dog is booting and running the startup scripts than its ok
- after that you can login by using a ssh-client with user: "root" and password: "binbash".

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add default route:
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- exec the following command to create a default route to the internet or other networks:
  /sbin/route add default gw <router-ip-address>

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easy way to setup a linux nfs server:
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add the following to /etc/exports:
/nfsroot/cube   192.168.0.47(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

service nfs start or /etc/init.d/nfs start

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setting up swap using net block devices:
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steps to create a nbd server for exporting a swap file:

- download and install nbd [http://nbd.sourceforge.net]
- create a /export/cube dir
- create a swap file in /export/cube with the following command:
  dd if=/dev/zero of=cube.swap bs=1024 seek=134530 count=0
- exec: <path to>/nbd-server 33221 /export/cube/cube.swap

steps to use the nbd client (on the gamecube):

- exec: nbd-client 192.168.0.50 33221 /dev/swap
- exec: mkswap /dev/swap
- exec: swapon /dev/swap

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notes:
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- don't forget to setup your timezone
- you can use yum to install yellow dog packages: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

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Thanx goes to:
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- DrClaw for lending his powerbook workstation (keep the new one off the closet :P)
- Cenobyte for some testing
- al the members of the gc-linux project for providing a linux kernel with al the nessesary GC drivers