I have the same or very similar iMac with YDL 5.0.2 installed.
I don't know of a way to customize what packages are installed by default on YDL5. I never used any previous versions so I don't know if this is the norm for YDL or a new thing for v5.x. Terrasoft mentions
advanced installation option but don't know it ...
To use your YDL DVD as a local repository, you can edit the files under /etc/yum.repos.d to point to the DVD instead of internet addresses like this from a terminal window: (EDIT: apparently this isn't quite right, see bottom of post
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su
<root password>
gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-base.repo
(or use
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-base.repo if you're in text mode)
It should look like this to begin with:
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[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 Base
#baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/5.0/base/
mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd50-base-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
and you would change it to this:
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[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 Base
baseurl=file:///media/PBOOT/YellowDog
#mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd50-base-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
The folder "/media/PBOOT/" is where my YDL 5.0.2 install DVD automatically mounts -- if this is different on your system you'll need to change that part.
Then on the other two .repo files, yellowdog-extras.repo and yellowdog-updates.repo, change
enabled=1 to
enabled=0 so they aren't used.
That should be it, I think...
EDIT: Uh oh ... that doesn't quite work right.
You have to set it to
baseurl=file:///media/PBOOT/ so it reads the repodata folder on the DVD, but then it doesn't look in /media/PBOOT/YellowDog/RPMS ...
Maybe just do this instead (no need to modify any of the .repo files):
yum localinstall /media/PBOOT/YellowDog/RPMS/InsertPackageNameHere