Matt Dainty wrote:

>* Colin Raven <duiker@haggis.nl> [2004-11-05 09:11:45]:
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>>Matt Dainty wrote:
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>>>>Possibly. I've actually got two Qube2's, the other one I've put Gentoo
>>>>on. I know it's not really a direct comparison, but with Linux on it, it
>>>>stays up for much longer, and I'm fairly sure I get measurably faster
>>>>NFS performance out of it too.
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>>I wasn't aware that there was  a Gentoo "port" onto the Qube2...how did 
>>you install that distro?? Is there a Qube2/NetBSD type restore disc or 
>>is there some other wizardry that must be used?
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>IIRC it was a netboot effort.
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>I just waded through here:
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>http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/
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>I guess it's helpful to be familiar with the Gentoo install process.
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>Didn't seem to be official at the time but it Works For Me for my value
>of Works, which is basically booting a kernel and running some NFS
>daemons.
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>I'd really like to get it back to 100% NetBSD though but it seems to be
>really hard to get any kind of hard data on this problem.
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/me is scared ***tless of Gentoo