If you’re looking for instruction to install Ubuntu Linux on your Cobalt Qube 3 or Cobalt Raq please see my Ubuntu Qube howto.

My Qube has been running quite well for a month now. It’s quite fast and has no problem serving a web site heavy with php, postgres, MySql, and server side includes. Without a GUI, it has never swapped with 512 MB of RAM. The temperature has been pretty steady at, if I recall correctly, around 70.

I initially did a disk copy from the first drive to the second so that I could swap out drives in a poor man’s raid, if necessary. I used dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd. Then occasionally, I’ve mounted the partition of the second drive under the /mnt partition of the first and used rsync to keep them synchronized.

Yesterday, Jeff Ball of zeffie.com wrote to point out that my first Ubuntu boot wasn’t entirely successful. I thought that was obvious, but apparently not obvious enough. That’s why I posted the next Qube post detailing the changes.

Read what Jeff had to say in his badly misspelled forum post:

well off the bat I would love to know what modifications jeff@404ster.com made that ment he should attach his e-mail to everything?
LOL
Quote:
You can also find a how-to on installing Ubuntu, just put online, and 2x 120gig drives are working fine.
http://www.prairienet.org/~jtuttle/blog/item/124/
you do relize this is a failed boot right?
can you tell everyone why it was a failure please?

Jeff Walter (jeff@404ster) wrote the kernel patch to support the Cobalt hardware including the LCD, LED, temperature sensor, RAM proc sensors, and the serial number. I, for one, don’t begrudge him his due for his work on the Qube.

Anyway, Ubuntu on the Qube is a smashing success. People from all over the world have written to confirm that it works and to express their gratitude. It’s nice be able to ‘apt-get update && apt-get upgrade’ or ‘apt-get install ‘ anything.

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