Jim Gribbin said, on 08/21/2010 02:04 AM:
> We never were able to get the Qube to actually start it's net boot process.
> We suspect the old 2.0.x kernel was having difficulty speaking to the newer
> network card and kept us from being able to get a DHCP server going to start
> the process.
Yep. From http://cobaltfaqs.com/index.php/How_to_perform_an_OS_Restore
Must have only one of the following Network Interface Cards (NIC)
* Desktop machines (PCI cards)
o Intel PRO/100+ Server Adapter (PILA8470B)
o Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card (LNE100TX)
o Netgear Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter (FA312TX)
o 3Com OfficeConnect Fast Ethernet NIC (3CSOHO100-TX)
o 3Com Fast EtherLink XL PCI NIC (3C905B-TX)
* Laptops (PCMCIA cards)
o Netgear Fast Ethernet PCMCIA Adapter (FA410TX)
o 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC Card (3CCFE574BT)
o Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 (CE3B-100BTX)
While I, too, went through the exercise of restoring using one of the original OS restore CDs, it's sort of fruitless. Once you're done, you have what IMO is an unusable box, because it's unpatchable.
It's much better to put a modern, supported OS on your Qube. Debian has its own Qube-aware installer (pretty slick, but still needs particular NICs for the boot server):
http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/
http://mirrors.acsalaska.net/pub/Linux/debian/debian-cd/5.0.4/mipsel/iso-cd/
NetBSD also has a Qube-aware boot-server-based installer, no special NICs needed:
http://netbsd.org/Ports/cobalt/
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/cobalt/restore-cd/5.0.2/
As much of a BSD fanboy as I am, I recommend Debian instead for long-term maintainability, because it provides binary OS updates (as compiling from source is pretty time-consuming on older systems). If you put the newer firmware on there, you can dual-boot, IIRC.
Royce
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