Subject: Re: Upgrading Qube2 3.99CD?
To: Claudio Leiva S <cleivas@cox.net>
From: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 08/10/2006 21:45:23
Hi Claudio,

You have some nice pakages there, most of the ones I need, however I
seem to be having a real problem with downloads dissconnecting early
from your server.

Anything over half a meg ish and the connection finishes befor the
whole file is complete, this is hit and miss.

Cheers
Glyn
--- Claudio Leiva S <cleivas@cox.net> wrote:

> If you want to try the sources I have them at:
> 
> http://cleiva.no-ip.com/libreria/sources
> 
> 
> 
> Claudio Leiva
> Las Vegas, Nevada
> USA
> http://cleiva.no-ip.com
> http://cleiva.no-ip.com/forum
> (Powered By NetBSD for Cobalt)
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Glyn Astill" <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "Glyn Astill" <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>; "John Margaritis" 
> <john.margaritis@gmail.com>; "Pete Rushmere" <pete@rushmere.org>
> Cc: "Justin Newcomer" <justin@tinfoilsoldier.com>; "Glyn Astill" 
> <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>; <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Upgrading Qube2 3.99CD?
> 
> 
> 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=29
> > >
> > > 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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