Hi Glyn

Have a look at my howto's at: http://www.aironaut.ch/qube
specially at http://www.aironaut.ch/content/view/27/53/

Also i have some ready to run pakages available at: =20
http://www.aironaut.ch/Cobalt/NetBSD3.0/ so you don't need to compile =20
time from source

regards

Andreas

Quoting Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I spent a bit of time tonight and followed Pete Rushmeres guide to
> getting the Qube set up, thanks for that Pete.
>
> However I started to stumble a bit when I got to the section
> installing samba and apache, I didn't even manage to find the source
> to install these. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> I had a look at samba.org and tried to get a tarball of the source,
> but I just couldn't find it. There were instructions to getting it
> from SVN but I haven't got an svn client on the qube, theres a CVS
> though.
>
> Any pointers, especially explicit ones for a dummy would really be
> appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Glyn
> --- Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Thanks for all the replies, I've only just acquired the qube and I
>> want to get the basics up and running pretty quick.
>>
>> I've done the install with the 3.99 CD and all seemed to go okay,
>> so
>> now I've just got to set it all up. I really didn't have too much
>> time to look at it after I did the install but I did rlogin and do
>> "man afterinstall" but it said no manual was found.
>>
>> I've found a few guides etc around (I'm not being lazy honest!) but
>> if people could post their links to any reading material they have
>> I'd appreciate it. I don't intend it do go under any heavy load but
>> what I really want to do it stick apache,php&mysql on it and also
>> samba. If poss a mail server too (can I use xmail?).
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to get the lcd to do more than display
>> the
>> IP of eth0? Getting the buttons going would be nice; I'm prepared
>> to
>> be quite adventurous here.
>>
>> Any other web based management utils out there?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Glyn
>> --- John Margaritis <john.margaritis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > I read somewhere that webmin causes the Qube to almost grind to
>> a
>> > > halt. Would anyone here care to comment on this?
>> >
>> > 'Twas I, 'Twas I Pete.
>> >
>> > I didn't have much RAM in it then (only 16 MB), but the Qube was
>> > choking big
>> > time when the webmin server was running.  It's a pig!  I even
>> > loaded the
>> > 'minimal' version and it was still bad.  Even if you plan to max
>> > out your
>> > Qube to 256 MB of RAM, I still wouldn't recommend installing
>> Webmin
>> > on it...
>> >
>> >
>> > ...especially if you want to load a different theme (skin) that
>> > won't
>> > entirely disgrace your eyes (the default Webmin GUI looks like
>> > poo).  Put
>> > webmin on a P3 Linux server or something similar, but forget
>> about
>> > it on the
>> > Qube2.
>> >
>> > Also Glyn, Webmin was designed primarily for Linux and though it
>> > does its
>> > best to guess NetBSD file/directory resources, it's just not that
>> > good at
>> > it.  I'm sure this is fixable with command-line edits of the
>> > appropriate
>> > Webmin config files, but I don't see much point.  The author says
>> > it works
>> > best on Red Hat Linux and Sun OS.
>> >
>> > Because I'm a UNIX newbie, I installed Webmin right after fresh
>> > install of
>> > NetBSD 2.0 (a while back) out of fear that I wouldn't be able to
>> do
>> > anything
>> > on my server without a GUI, but... it turns out after learning
>> > mostly from
>> > Pete's Terraqube website (and, of course, from the folks on the
>> > NetBSD
>> > cobalt list) that NetBSD's command line really isn't too bad.  I
>> > would never
>> > consider putting the Qube through such terrible horrors ever,
>> ever
>> > again; I
>> > even promised it I wouldn't.
>> >
>> > Check this out... a Mac mini 'server' with Webmin:
>> > http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=3D29
>> >
>> > This article cautions against keeping the Webmin server running
>> > unless you
>> > have 1 GB of RAM!!  And keep in mind that's on a G4 Mac;
>> technology
>> > that is
>> > seven years newer and with ~ 6 X the cpu frequency of the Qube2
>> > (250 MHz).
>> >
>> > Webmin is very resource hungry, if you do go through with this,
>> > have
>> > patience and go strong friend, go strong.
>> >
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8/5/06, Pete Rushmere <pete@rushmere.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > At 19:57 04/08/2006, Justin Newcomer wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >However, there are web interfaces for configuring a server,
>> such
>> > as
>> > > >webmin, which can be installed if you install from the 3.99
>> > restore
>> > > >cd.
>> > >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > >          I read somewhere that webmin causes the Qube to almost
>> > grind to a
>> > > halt. Would anyone here care to comment on this?
>> > >
>> > > Regards,
>> > > Pete.
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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