Hey Lucien,

you should be able to attach your qube's drive to a PC
or other host system and boot into netbsd (from a
repair / rescue CD) and use that system to prepare the
qube drive. 

I've never played with a 2700 so you may have other
issues running BSD (NIC drivers?) but I've prepared a
drive for my Qube2 this way and it worked well. Most
of the info you need is in the FAQ, but basically it
just involves partitioning/labeling the drive and
extracting the NetBSD port/cobalt sets onto the drive,
then popping it into the Qube and tweaking a few
files.

Hope this helps!


--- Lucien Wells <lwells@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:30:12 +0900, Toru Nishimura
> wrote:
> > Henning Schmiedehausen hps@intermeta.de asked;
> >
> >
> >> There was some talk on this list about a fix in
> the PCI code /
> >> interrupt routing in -current but as I have no
> other NetBSD box
> >> handy I'm not able to cross-compile a new kernel
> myself.
> >>
> >> So: Is there any hope for me or must I wait until
> the next BSD
> >> release and that some kind soul will again
> provide install disks
> >> for the Qube?
> >>
> >
> > Yes, you can expect NetBSD for Q2700.   I'm
> another 2700 owner who
> > managed to get it for free years ago.   After
> unreasonable burdens
> > of console-less computer, I abandoned and left the
> bran' new
> > computer in the shipment container.
> >
> > A few weeks ago I went to local com shop and found
> to acquire a
> > serial PCI card.  It has NetMos (now NetChip) 9865
> chip inside, and
> > I'm pretty hopeful to make it right /dev/console. 
> PLS look at
> > dev/pci/puccn.c for reference.
> >
> > Toru Nishimura/ALKYL Technology
> 
> Would a kind hearted soul who has just done an
> install whip the HD out of the
> Qube and do a ghost backup and stick it online? This
> would allow those of us
> without the bootrom to do the install.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lucien.
> --
> 
> Lucien Wells, lwells@bigpond.net.au on 23/12/2003
> 


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