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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:43 am    Post subject: cobalt qube clone Reply with quote

It would appear that I have laid my hot little hands on a cobalt qube, however, its the clone/re-badge that gateway made for a while, if you remember them.

Basically, trying to work out if anyone has gentoo running on these, sadly, the support on the native software is gone now, and id really like something thats kinda useful rather that a foot rest...

Ive been looking around, and basically, at this point, there is NetBSD or Gentoo as an option, is Gentoo dev still happening on thse, or has it fallen by the wayside?

any feedback would be great.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:12 pm    Post subject: Re: cobalt qube clone Reply with quote

nyx_au wrote:
It would appear that I have laid my hot little hands on a cobalt qube, however, its the clone/re-badge that gateway made for a while, if you remember them.


The Gateway Microserver is, as far as I know, just a repainted Qube 2--in other words, it's exactly the same on the inside.

nyx_au wrote:
Ive been looking around, and basically, at this point, there is NetBSD or Gentoo as an option, is Gentoo dev still happening on thse, or has it fallen by the wayside?


There are still threads in this forum about work on Qube and Raq systems. Gentoo runs well (though slow, because they are not powerful) on Qube 2s.

Prior to using Gentoo, I used NetBSD 1.6 on my Qube. Although in many ways I prefer BSD over Linux, NetBSD on the Qube was very much broken--the thing would hang regularly, particuarly on heavy network usage. I don't know if NetBSD 2.0 is particularly better, but I'd go Gentoo if I were you.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You mean these little puppies?
If you open them up, you'll indeed notice that it has "Qube 2" clearly written on the mainboard.

Code:
stuartl@qube stuartl $ uname -a
Linux qube 2.6.8.1-mipscvs-20040821 #1 Tue Sep 7 00:23:23 EST 2004 mips Nevada V10.0  FPU V10.0 Cobalt Qube2 GNU/Linux
stuartl@qube stuartl $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type             : Cobalt Qube2
processor               : 0
cpu model               : Nevada V10.0  FPU V10.0
BogoMIPS                : 248.83
wait instruction        : yes
microsecond timers      : yes
tlb_entries             : 48
extra interrupt vector  : yes
hardware watchpoint     : no
VCED exceptions         : not available
VCEI exceptions         : not available
stuartl@qube stuartl $ uptime
 21:28:29 up 8 days,  3:58,  1 user,  load average: 0.10, 0.04, 0.01
stuartl@qube stuartl $ emerge info

*** You are not in the portage group. You may experience cache problems
*** due to permissions preventing the creation of the on-disk cache.
*** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage.

Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/mips/cobalt/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1,glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r2,uclibc-0.9.21-r0, 2.6.8.1-mipscvs-20040821 mips)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8.1-mipscvs-20040821 mips Nevada V10.0  FPU V10.0
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 30 2005, 02:31:05)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.4, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.91.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.21-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="mips"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mips4 -mabi=32 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mips4 -mabi=32 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/hd/0/gentoo/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www/portage http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/hd/0/gentoo/packages/mipsel/mips4/"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="mips berkdb bitmap-fonts cobalt curl fortran gdbm gpm ldap libwww mysql ncurses nls nomultilib pam perl png python readline samba sdl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Failed to write to mtimedb: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/mtimedb'


And as you can see above... that's the machine in question running Gentoo.

The Gateway Microserver (as Sanguinary has rightly pointed out) is simply an OEM-branded version of the Qube 2. The Seagate NasRaQ is another example.
They run Gentoo just fine. Just make sure you put plenty of RAM (at least 64MB, preferrably 128MB) and a decent hard drive in the machines, and they go far.
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