Subject: NetBSD installed outside of the Qube2 world
To: None <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
From: Colin Raven <duiker@haggis.nl>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 11/21/2004 22:30:50
Hi all!

On a small 'what-if' journey here.

I'm wondering what would happen if I yanked the drive out of my Qube2 
and actually reinstalled NetBSD on it, but on/in another machine...

Now before anyone comes to think I've lost my mind, I realize that the 
Qube2 is a MIPS platform...my only other machine is x86, so clearly all 
kinds of stuff would compile differently............or would it?
Just what *would* happen if I did that?

The reason I'm even wondering this is because there are some partitions 
that don't look right, my entire 80GB disc isn't recognized (as it 
happens, this isn't a big deal at present) and the swap partition isn't 
right....I know it's there, but it's reported differently by a) top b) 
df -m and c) webmin.
I can post the output of all 3 if anyone wants to take a look.

Right now stuff is working...errmmmm...'well enough' but I wondered if 
anyone could share their thoughts on the matter.

-Colin