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

[phoenix hawk <phawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Josh Kuperman wrote:

> 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).

http://www.cobaltfaqs.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=11&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
might help :)

Erm... get a OSRCD or customize one to suit your needs, more info at:
http://www.cobaltfaqs.com/wiki/index.php/CustomOSRCD

> 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.

Bah! the patches are just as bad! :P but, yeah, 550 is a little
more friendly, a little safer and a little cooler. Yeah, I had a
XTR that had to be sent back to Sun for fixing cause the kernel patch
went haywire and screwed up the SCSI disks on the XTR. We had to
migrate everything back to an older Raq4r.

> 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.

Sorry, but this is not windoze :) Before Sun bought Cobalt, it
was the cobalt folks who was doing one thing, after that, it was
other guys? I don't know, but there must be a reason why a
linux box gets end-of-lifed so quickly. Other x86 linux boxes seems
to last much longer for me. Maybe Sun has realized what's wrong with
the Raq4s, Qubes, etc so they are consolidating things but because
Cobalts are rather special (kernel inside the ROM - Read Only Memory),
you really need to be experienced or confident to make changes there.
But luckily we have people who are brave enough to open the box
up (thereby voiding the warranty) and doing real hacks.

Caerful with the tweakses... or you'll lose your precioussss... :P

Regards.