For Cobalt Hardware: Raqcop-2.0.0 Now Available!

Raqcop 2.0.0 is now available at
http://downloads.raqcop.com/cobalt_ipcop/. The iso image for using
VMWare to install is uploaded to the site now as well as the hard drive
and flash images. If you happen to have installed any of the pre-made
RC1 images, they will update to 2.0 stable via the update page in the
web gui provided you are connected via red to the internet. More on the
update mechanism further below.

All of the benefits of IPCop 2.0.0 are realized on Cobalt x86 hardware
as always with Raqcop. A special Thank You goes out to the IPCop
development team for providing valuable input along the way as well as
incorporating some of the Cobalt specific readable information in System
Information in addition to a manual udev startup in rc.sysinfo to
address hardware that cannot use an init ramdisk (where udev is started
in a standard PC) and also for providing a great firewall/router distro
to make a Cobalt adaptation from.

New to Raqcop 2.x.x is the ability to download and apply Raqcop specific
updates via the web gui that are signed with a Raqcop unique key and
downloaded from our site. The changes necessary over the standard PC
version of IPCop to run on this hardware platform require a separate
update path to avoid mismatched update. This feature mirrors that of
IPCop 2.x.x. This is much improved in general over IPcop 1.4 and more so
for Raqcop from the lack of a decent update mechanism in Raqcop 1.4.
Barring hardware failure, one should only need to install Raqcop 2.x.x
once and update from there as updates arrive.

Please read the notes in the download section for specifics. You MUST
use a nullmodem cable to use a serial console to setup the network upon
first boot since the network configuration is tied to the mac addresses
and utilized by udev. The network must be set up on the machine it will
run on. If you use a raid pair, you will need to set both root and boot
to md0 via serial console while in the rom menu. Single disk
installations use hda1 as root and boot in the rom unlike Raqcop 1.4
that used hda4 as the root device. The 3000 series (Qube3, Raq3, and
Raq4) default to hda1 in both root and boot by doing a rom reset by
holding down the E button while powering on. The LCD will tell you when
it is reset.

 A note about Cobalt x86 hardware: This hardware platform is biosless,
uses a rom to launch the system kernel which cannot be a standard
bzimage and is patched for Cobalt specific system calls, does not and
cannot use a standard bootloader nor even see the mbr, and is headless
which also requires extra work to prevent nuisance errors on boot due to
the lack of standard TTY's.
-- 
Dave Studeman
http://www.raqcop.com

PS: Oh Tom or somebody, could you please fix the Coptime page at the
German forum, it truncates the last two letters of my kernel name, yeah
I could have used an abbreviated  version of the word "cobalt" but nah :)


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