RE: [cobalt-users] New images for Qube 3 and Raq 550

["Tunc Eresen\(?`..,,.-> Cobalt M447785363481 " <tunceresen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] New images for Qube 3 and Raq 550

Tunc Eresen\(?`..,,.->  Cobalt   M447785363481 wrote:

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> http://216.22.108.20/
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> All there and please visit web site of these guys who created this superb!
> Images, OCRDS,

alas, the 550-iso is not available.

The other day I tried to make my own custom-OSRCD, but it wouldn't fit on a
CD with all patches included... is there a way to make a fuly patched CD ?
Can I dump some stuff or maybe compress some large files that are not used
or ... ?

Willem.

 
> Tunc

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> Hi Guys
> 
> I have only been dealing with cobalt gear for about a month now so 
> please bear with me if this is a stupid question and someone else is 
> already doing it..
> 
> I have looked at all the various Cobalt related projects on SF.net as 
> well as the numerous different package download sites scattered across 
> the net, but it all seeems to be very piecemeal.
> 
> Has anyone actually sat down and created new Cobalt Qube 3/Raq 550 
> image CDs with updated packages and kernels? Obviously this could go 
> as far as taking
> RH9 and the code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sausalito/ and 
> rolling an entirely new OS, but I was (firstly) thinking of something 
> a little easier.
> 
> In particular the most annoying thing I find about all these pretty 
> blue boxes is that they run the ext2 filesystem which IMO should have 
> been taken out to die long ago. Is there any technical reason why 
> ReiserFS couldn't be supported on these machines (ext3 could be 
> supported also for those who just want to upgrade without the hassle of an
export and import)??
> 
> I would also love to have them run postfix and amavis by default which 
> looks like it wouldn't take too long to do..
> 
> Is anyone else interested in such a project? I will probably do it 
> myself anyway when I get time, but tips/tricks/pointers/you're an 
> idiot peter would all be appreciated in advance..
> 
> Also does anyone have the actual build scripts that Sun/Cobalt used to 
> build the CD Images?? I know that I can edit the ISO images directly 
> on a loopback filesystem, but I am wondering how much stuff Sun has
actually released?
> 
> <rant>
> Also, is it just me, or is the rebuild procedure a major pain in the 
> proverbial?!!?? I can see no good reason that there is such a limited 
> list of network cards supported by default! If knoppix can detect and 
> use my sound card and graphics card without any help the Cobalt 
> rebuild CD sure as hell should be able to use any network card I might 
> have without having to manually modprobe drivers....
> </rant>
> 
> As I have around 20 Qube customers to support until the end of the 
> universe, I believe a these few modifications would make my life alot
easier.
> 
> Comments? Questions? Flames?
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> Peter Nixon


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 You should ask Gerald who makes these CDs, As far as I know he said that it
will never fit into 1 CD anymore due to concurrent updates and fixes it is
easy to FTP patches up in 1, from Gerald's Patch files, I am no sure about
if you can use  RaQware-RaQ34-550-pkgs-040210.tar file on pure 550 box,
Gerald can answer that.
Tunc