Hi John,

for the original Restore-CD from Cobalt/Sun you didnt have to create 
partitions
on the harddisk.

You need to connect the Qube via Corsover-cable or hub/switch to a PC 
which has finished boot from this CD.
Then you should hold the left+right button and power-on the Qube....
The display should now displaying "Netbooting..."

The PC should habe a Network-Card from that types which are displayed 
at the CD-ROM bootup.
Only with such a card the CD could find the network card and could 
start the DHCP/NFS/TFTP/BOOTP-Server.

With the original CD the Qube could only recognize 32GB of the Harddisk 
due Kernel-Limitations of the Cobalt-2.2-Kernel.

With NetBSD or Debian-Sarge the Qube could seee the whole 40GB of your 
Harddisk.

For NetBSD ist also a RestoreCD available and Debian-Sarge-Info could 
be found at
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/cobalt/

Bye
Guido.


Am 03.10.2004 um 16:12 schrieb John Cobb:

> Hi,
>
> Ive just purchased an Qube 2 from ebay, it didnt come with a hard 
> drive so
> ive put in one of my own.
> Now just as a test im trying to install the original restore cd but im
> having problems, I believe its due to the hard drive having no 
> partitions on
> it, now my question is, do I have to prepare the hard drive before
> installation of the restore cd/netbsd? If so do you recommended any
> particular setup? Its a 40gb drive btw.