Thanks

I'm planning on using them as Network Attached Storage (archiving) only.  

I thought that there was a problem installing NETBSD restore onto the Qube 1 because it didn't have a serial port and because of a conflict the built in ethernet port.  I guess I misunderstood.  

Anybody know for sure

Tate  

-----Original Message-----
From: 
Sent: Jul 28, 2004 11:59 AM
To: Tate Jackson <tatejackson@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Qube 1/ Qube 2700 Restore CD

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:20:06 -0400 (GMT-04:00), Tate Jackson
<tatejackson@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I thought I had read that someone had come up with a NetBSD Restore CD for the Qube 1/Qube 2700.  If memory serves me correctly, it needed a 3rd party pci network card to be installed.
> 
> Has an image for this NetBSD/Qube 1 "restore" cd been posted anywhere?
> 
> I've got 2 of these little qubes and I'd love to turn into a pair of GigaQubes. I could use a half terabyte of storage capacity on my home network.  ( for video editing )
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tate
> 

 I don't think you need a 3rd party nic, at least, I didn't for my RaQ1.

The restore CD I used is here:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/cobalt/restore-cd/1.6.1/

Grab the raq1 version since it has DMA disabled (expect it to not boot
otherwise) but read this post about the default nightly cron which
will hang your cobalt if you don't disabled it:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-cobalt/2004/06/29/0001.html

I think the disk i/o performance is not going to be what you're
looking for for video editing, unless it's strictly for archive
purposes.

-Aaron