Re: 6.1.4 kernel and Qube2

[Steve Schicht <steve_schicht%yahoo.com@localhost>]

Glyn Astill <glynastill <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes:


> >
> >I have an old western digital 320GB WD3200AAJB in mine. Has anyone
created an install CD 
with 6.1.X or 7.X
> yet? I can try on my Qube 2
> >
> 
> I'm using a mix of IDE -> CF card adapters and SATA disks.  It's been a 
while since I've created a restorecd,
> recently I've just been cheating and installing from the latest of Izumi's
CDs then running sysupgrade on
> top of it.
> 
> I'd intended to do that on my spare qube as soon as I got time, but
the time never seems to come.  Perhaps you
> could try?
> 
> 

I tried the sysupgrade to install 7.0 after I used the latest 5.5.2 restore disk,
but I think some things are not in sync as some of the latest pkgsrc packages
were not able to compile.
I did not experience any instability with 7.0 kernel, but I only ran it for a day
or so.
I managed to get a 7.0 restore cd built after a couple of tweaks (using 5.5.2
on my qube!).
The restorecd boots on my laptop, but for some reason my qube was not able
to start the netboot process. 
I guess the next  step for me will be to get an usb-rs232 adapter and see if 
the console will tell me what's going on.  
I don't expect to make any progress for a while especially since I don't have
much knowledge of what's going on with the boot process.