Re: [cobalt-developers] Alternative RAQ2 OS?

["John P. Looney" <valen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 02:31:55PM -0400, Gerald Waugh mentioned:
> On Sunday 18 August 2002 17:22, Michele Neylon -Blacknight Solutions wrote:
> > At 20.19 16/08/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > >netBSD
> > Thank you! I'll let you know how we get on.
> Please do!
> I have a couple RaQ2s that I would like to put to work with netBSD
> But, haven't the time to experimemt.

 It's rather painful.

 NetBSD for the Raq2 doesn't have an installer for instance...unless you
consider "tar" an installer. It has to be done with netbooting a box,
mounting the install directory via NFS, a few un-tars etc.

 I had a raq2 that I had a shot at, didn't get it working (bsd fdisk
scares me), and I left it over to a friend that got his Qube installed
with NetBSD. A week later, and he's still trying to work out what he did
wrong, but he's sure it's "partitions, or something", as the Qube disk
boots the raq2 fine!

Kate