Subject: Re: A question for Pete Rushmere
To: Claudio Leiva S <cleiva@mindspring.com>
From: Pete Rushmere <pete@rushmere.org>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 03/29/2005 23:32:37
Claudio,

         It worked for me OK...

Kind Regards,
Pete.

At 21:47 29/03/2005, Claudio Leiva S wrote:
>Hi:
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>I'am almost ready to try NetBSD 2.0 v1 in my Qube and I want to know if I 
>the steps in your guide are applicable for this instalation too, thanks.
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>Claudio Leiva
>Las Vegas, Nevada
>USA
>http://nv4x4.no-ip.org/claudio
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bramley" 
><mickibramley@yahoo.co.uk>
>To: <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:23 AM
>Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD 2.0 - second harddisk affected?
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>>On 29/3/05 9:47 pm, "Alex Pelts" <alexp@broadcom.com> wrote:
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>>>I do not believe second hard disk would be affected. Only first device
>>>is mentioned in the install scripts. I would assume it is pretty safe to
>>>leave second HD plugged in.
>>>
>>>As far as OS version goes, you can use 1.6.2 which has been very good to
>>>me. I do not experience any corruptions or lockups with any file size.
>>>Of course people reported increased performance with 2.0 but with data
>>>corruption it does not help much.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Alex
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>>I've been reading about NetBSD 2 in the mail list for a few weeks now and am
>>I bit worried that my attempts next month to resurrect my Qube 2 are going
>>to flop.  It seems there are a few problems?
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>>I've not tried it yet on my machine but I want to use my Qube 2 as an
>>Internet file server and BBS (Wired & Hotline S-HXD) for NeXT, SGI & BeOS.
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>>The file corruption issue you speak of, what exactly are we talking about
>>here?, do you mean large file transfers over TCP/IP are affected or are you
>>talking about some other file sharing protocol being affected?.
>>
>>Please can somebody clarify what file corruptions issues are being
>>experienced?.  I borked 1.6.1 on my Qube when I tried to remotely update the
>>kernel to V2 (from 5000 miles away Doh!), I'm home again next month and can
>>fix the Qube up again however it worries my that maybe it's going to still
>>cause me a load of hassle.  I wanted to use the Qube as they're cheap and
>>quiet to run and maintain, but this project is not working out thus far.
>>
>>Regards
>>Mick Bramley
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