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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May 8th, 2008 08:06
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.
May 8th, 2008 08:13
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.
May 19th, 2008 20:15
Hi Scott,
RAQ, sorry. If you have specific corrections to make I’d be glad to incorporate them.
Thanks,
Jim