Re: Compiling kernel for Qube2700WG?

[Mike Hebel <nimitz%nimitzbrood.com@localhost>]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 3:11 PM 10/7/08, Andy Ruhl wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Mike Hebel  
> <nimitz%nimitzbrood.com@localhost> wrote:
> > Can you just do like you would with some other O/S installs and  
> > expand all
> > the sets on to the disk using tar?
>
> Yeah, but that's not the only thing you have to do. You have to do
> MAKEDEV in the /dev directory and set up the network, rc.conf, and
> probably some other stuff. I think this "manual" install process is
> documented somewhere. If it isn't, it's basically the same thing that
> I have to do when netbooting the dreamcast, so there's probably info
> over there on how to set up the filesystem.

I've got the manual install printed out but thanks for the recap.

> You said in another mail that you might try just putting a new kernel
> on your current disk to boot the 2700 off of.

Actually it would be the previous disk I had in there with 3.0 on it  
but I might be willing to put it into the Qube2, do a 4.0 install on  
it, customize the kernel, then move it to the Qube1.

Is it just the COM entry I have to take out of the kernel config?

> If the secondary bootloader works for the 2700, then that shouldn't be
> a problem. The kernel size limit problem shouldn't be a problem
> anymore. That was solved when the secondary bootloader was fixed to
> run on these, they don't have any kernel size limit problems.

Excellent.  That would save me a lot of time.  Thankfully I only have  
one 2700 - the rest are Qube2/Raq/Raq2 which seem to netboot just  
fine.  Well all but Dorothy - she wouldn't netboot anything but 1.6   
- go figure.

I think I'm an addict...I have 6 Cobalt systems, now 4 running  
currently.  I wish I could find the funky red one or the black  
Gateway boxes.  For some reason I love these little things.

And since I just added a buttload of swap to them (1gig swapfile on  
each one) they run simple stuff like gangbusters.  PHP is still a hog  
though...
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Mike Hebel


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