RE: [cobalt-users] Qube 2: How does it scale?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:21 25-8-2000 -0500, you wrote:
> > I added an extra 16 MB (edo 72 pins SIMM) to make it 32MB and
> > replaced the
> > disk to a 13GB (standard with a 4GB)
> >
> > btw 2.4 should be a lot better in not crashing the qube. :-)
> .
> When you change the hard disk, how do you get the Qube to
> identify it properly? Any old EIDE disk, right? Then restore
> off the CD? And no problems at all?

Nothing. Just clone it to a new drive disk to disk. btw  the mips machines 
boor from a rom and always load the kernel from /boot/vmlinux.gz.
No problems identifying drives. They work op to 33GB or something like that.
No bootloader hassles. And on disk format is consistant between architectures.
The standard 4.3GB Quantum Fireball was to small for my use.
I have thus replaced it with a 13GB I had lying around.


> I didn't understand what the "2.4" is that won't crash the Qube.

Linux kernel 2.4 - It will probably have mips included in the standard kernel.
The 2.4 is arguably more stable then 2.0.34 provided standard.
it will be out sometime this year.


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Seth
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