Re: [cobalt-developers] Paperclip Button, Qube1/2700

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:31 PM 8/23/00 -0700, you wrote:
> My first question is:
>
> What does the paperclip button really do?
> In other words, can I change its function
> do some arbitrary task?
>
> Also, some of my story:
>
> I have a Qube 2700 that I'm planning to do
> things with that Cobalt wouldn't approve of.

I already do ;-)
I've got lot's more diskspace now and doubled the ram.

> Unfortunately, the only way I have of restoring
> it is one of my own backups; the software does not
> seem to be available from cobaltnet.com.

There is a port of debian currently in the works for mips.
It should support the cobalt and SGI mips machines. There are more mips 
machines I can't remember them all.

Take the disk out of your cobalt and put it in a other linux box.
then dd /dev/hdaX (where X is 1 3 and 4) to a file on your disk.
You might want to gzip or bzip them.

If you don't want to have partition images.
Mount the partitions on the disk somewhere on your system and then just 
create large tarballs from from the mounts on the qube and save them 
somewhere else on your system. As long as the partition table is the same 
you can always restore them :-)

btw I use Norton Ghost myself. Much easier to restore (over the network)

> Perhaps someone knows if the 2800wg stuff from the
> ftp site equals a working fresh install for a qube1.
> I'm willing to try it, but maybe not if I'm the only
> person in the world with a 2700.

Sorry. Don't know.
Debian mips port already has circa 3000 packages pre compiled.
Unfortunately some important are still missing because off compiler and 
glibc issues

> Also, I should go ahead and admit that this qube
> is actually an early, pre-release version that C sent
> to ISP's back in the stone age, but now is in my care
> as a research um, toy.  I'm far more interested in
> the alternative architecture for Linux than I am in
> the Cobalt's intended purpose.  That means I'd like to
> end up with a debian-ish system, foregoing all the web
> driven stuff.

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> If this means I need to butt off the list, a kind
> nudge in that direction will suffice; but this poster
> hopes for a certain amount of encouragement to keeping
> this ancient blue square alive.

Hey, it's got a cobalt logo on the front you know ;-)
And you are not the only one messing with the funny little qube ;-)


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Seth
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