Re: [cobalt-users] Replace ipchains with iptables on RaQ XTR possible ?

[Josh Kuperman <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:20:56PM -0400, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On Thursday 22 May 2003 21:44, Bruce Timberlake wrote:
> >
> > The RaQ 550 OSRCD will install on a Qube 3, RaQ 3, RaQ 4, or RaQ XTR.
> 
> After a ROM upgrade!

OK, How do I achieve the ROM upgrade? Has anyone done this? Is there a
step-by-step guide somewhere? Can I back up and restore users? What
about the things I installed from third party packages (actually I
believe that's just MySQL, OpenSSH, and OpenWebMail - which I think
are included)? What about things I compiled myself like sudo and
perl-5.6.1 (stored in opt so the interface would still work).

Well at least I feel I'm making progress! One of my major regrets was
buying my XTR before the 550 came out, and then realizing that the 550
would have been a better choice for me.

In any case, what do I have to do in order to achieve the ROM
upgrade. If I upgrade the ROM does that make my XTR, a supported model
or is it just an EOL'ed machine with 3rd party stuff.


If Sun had announced an upgrade path for all recent models to
become RaQ 550s, they made the right choice. Somehow I missed that
announcement! But it would mean they were actually supporting Cobalt
correctly, by forcing it to use one OS, one kernel, and making the
interface universal across the Cobalt product line.

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Josh Kuperman                       
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