* Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-10-07 12:07]: > Assuming that you don't have time to tarball for a Qube 2700
I've generated a tarball now. I don't have a Qube without serial console to test, but it doesn't show any console output on my Qube2 so hopefully it will work! Instructions are below. Preparing the hard drive ======================== Take the hard drive out of the Cobalt machine and put it into any PC. First, you have to partition the disk. You *need* a /boot partition as hda1 as type ext2 revision 0 and a / (root) partition as hda2 as type ext3. The installation will by default try to mount swap from hda5 and home from hda6 but that can always be changed. The layout I had was the following (which is the default "desktop" scheme debian-intaller will use on Cobalt): Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 207 97776 83 Linux /dev/hda2 208 2842 1245037+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 2843 8912 2868075 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 2843 3216 176683+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 3217 8912 2691328+ 83 Linux Use fdisk to partition your disk (let's call the disk hdc1 for now, assuming that you put it on the 2nd IDE controller in your PC). Make sure that at least hdc1 is labled as a Linux partition (type 83). Now format the drive: % mkfs.ext2 -r 0 /dev/hdc1 % mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdc2 Mount the disk somewhere: % mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt % mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/boot Create /home and /proc which are missing % mkdir /mnt/proc /mnt/home Downloading and installing the Debian base system ================================================= Download the compressed base system (about 57M). This contains a basic system with a basic set of package of sarge as of 2004-10-13. % wget http://people.debian.org/~tbm/cobalt/base.tar.bz2 % wget http://people.debian.org/~tbm/cobalt/base.tar.bz2.asc Verify that the GPG signature matches: % gpg --verify base.tar.bz2.asc base.tar.bz2 In this base, I have made the following modifications: - changed /etc/inittab so it won't use ttyS0 - patched /etc/init.d/rc and /etc/init.d/rcS so it will show status information on the LCD panel Now untar this system onto the drive: % cd /mnt % bzcat ~/base.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf - Boot the system =============== Put the hard drive back into the Cobalt and boot it. It will automatically load CoLo from disk which will then boot a kernel and start Debian. You should see the services on the LCD panel as they are started. The system will try to obtain an IP address via DHCP on eth0. SSH is installed and remote root logins are allowed. The password is "root". There are no users yet. What to do now ============== You have have a working system. There are a few things you should do, though: - change the root password - add normal user accounts - regenerate the SSH key (since the private key is included in the base system on my web page) - Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and use a Debian mirror close to you and then type: apt-get update -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/
