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RaqBuntu lives!

After trying to be smart about it and figure out my own way to get Ubuntu 8.04 on the RAQ3 I decided to just suck it up and follow others leads.  So, I followed Jim Tuttle’s site about getting Ubuntu 6.06 on his Qube.  The Qube and Raq are very similar as far as I can tell so I thought I would have some success with this.  I combined this with Tim Wiley’s instructions for building a fresher kernel.  Success!  At this point I had a working Ubuntu 6.06 install.

So, I crossed my fingers and used upgrade-manager to bring it to 8.04.  The first time I ran it it timed out on one of the mirrors.  That was a little scary but it looked like it probably recovered ok from it so I tried the same thing again.  Success!  Almost seemed too easy.  After some time it asked if I wanted to remove obsolete apps so I did and then asked to reboot, which I did.  Came right back up and showed 8.04 and the uname -r still showed my custom kernel.

Sweet!

I haven’t really put any time on the box yet so I don’t know how it’ll perform but it looks pretty stable right now.  I’m going to try to clone the drive to the RAQ3i drive so I don’t have to go through the rather lengthy process again.  It all works but it’s hours long.  Kernel compiling on the RAQ isn’t what I’d call a snappy process.

More later once I get Asterisk up and running.

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3 Responses to “RaqBuntu lives!”

  1. Jim
    May 8th, 2008 08:06
    1

    Hey Scott,

    I’m glad you were able to get Ubuntu on your Cube. I’m sort of surprised that you were able to upgrade to 8.04. I vaguely recall that someone wrote to me about not being able to install 7.04 due to a change in the boot image or something. Anyway, very glad it worked for you and thanks for dropping me a line.

  2. scott
    May 8th, 2008 08:13
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    Jim,

    Thanks for dropping the note! I don’t think it makes any difference but these are RAQ3’s not Qubes.

    One thing I found was many comments about not using apt-get dist-upgrade. Apparently it’s less thorough about the upgrade than upgrade-manager.

    Anyway, more posts later as I actually start to use these things and see if they are working properly.

  3. Jim
    May 19th, 2008 20:15
    3

    Hi Scott,

    RAQ, sorry. If you have specific corrections to make I’d be glad to incorporate them.

    Thanks,
    Jim

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