RE: [cobalt-users] Qube2 OS on Raq2 (for the archive)

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi all,
> just in case somebody is thinking about running Qube2 OS
> on a Raq2, here is my experience with this adventure.
> First thing i had to fight was dhcpd. After re-boot the
> server was looking for an dhcp server. After the timout 
> (arround 10 minutes) the server had an random IP adress 
> from the 192.168.0.X block. The IP changed every time 
> after re-boot. During the timeout period it is not possible 
> to telnet or ssh to the server, or access the admin GUI (the 
> IP is actualy on the LCD display during the timout). I had to 
> manualy reconfigure the network in /etc/sysconfig conf files 
> ifcfg-eth0 ifup and network. 
> Second problem was the usage of the / partition. The Qube2 OS used 
> after installing all update packages 84% of the partition. 
> One might move some stuff from /usr to /home (The Raq2 only 
> uses 52% of the / partition after all update packages are 
> installed). Third problem i encoutered was a memory leak. In 
> the end the memory usage was up to 245MB out of 256MB, swap 
> partition was slightly in use. (Raq2 uses arround 40MB) This 
> was by the default install with all update
> 
> packages installed. I did not investigate from where the 
> memory leak was coming but i believe it was issued from one 
> of the upgrades.
> 
> I believe the Qube2 OS is pretty nice and has some very nice 
> (better) features over the Raq2 OS. One could spend 2 or 3 
> days to solve the problems and would have a pretty nice 
> Server. Yes....i restored my Raq2 to the Raq2 OS :-))) Maybe 
> i will play arround with it at another time when i have more 
> time. Best Regards Peter

Peter as someone who worked for Cobalt I know it works. The problems you
have seen are nothing to do with running Qube2 OS on a RaQ2 the hardware
is near identical and we did run it internally for various reasons. If
you restore the RaQ2 with an Qube2 OS restore CD then you have to all
intents and purposes a Qube2 in a RaQ format, I suspect your restore did
not work properly it should do just as Qube3 will restore onto RaQ3/4
and the other way round.  Some of the versions will depend on certain
hardware i.e. RaQ4R will only restore onto Qube3 Pro (2 drives) and
watch out for the NICs the RaQ4 and RaQ3 only have 1 RaQ4i and RaQ3i
have 2.

Gavin