Re: installing Debian on Cobalt Qube 2
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma@sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Sam Varghese<sam@gnubies.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, September 6, 2009 03:23, Sameer Verma wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Martin Michlmayr<tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
>>>> * Sameer Verma <sverma@sfsu.edu> [2009-09-04 19:56]:
>>>>> This is a question about Qube2. I'm looking through
>>>>> http://www.cyrius.com/debian/cobalt/install.html page. I'm not sure
>>>>> about the Primary and Secondary eth ports on the Qube2. Which port
>>>>> gets connected to the "server"?
>>>>
>>>> The primary eth port.
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK, I got that far, but how does the Qube2 talk to the Internet if its
>>> talking to the NFS server via Primary port? Do I use the Secondary
>>> port for that? I'm using a laptop with NFS and DHCP to serve /nfsroot
>>> and the laptop is on the Internet via the wireless interface. This is
>>> a bit confusing...perhaps I'm not getting the full picture.
>>
>> Have a look at the list of possible problems at the bottom of this page
>> (basically a rehash of Martin's very fine guide), they may be of help:
>>
>> http://gnubies.com/linux/cobalt_qube2.html
>>
>> Sam
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>
>
> Hi Sam,
> Thank you for the clarifications via the link...it makes a lot more
> sense now. I had switched from Sun's Cobalt release (the last update
> they did before killing Cobalt) to Debian a long time ago, and I
> vaguely remember using a set of Debian 3.0 CDs on a laptop to install
> Debian on the Qube2. This method is using netinstall, so that makes
> sense.
>
> I'm stumped on something new though. My laptop runs Jaunty and I am
> using its wlan0 as the interface to the outside, while the eth0
> interface offers NFS, DHCP etc. via a crossover to the Qube2. The
> trouble is that I simply cannot get the interfaces to forward at all.
> This has me stumped because I've done this a thousand times on
> machines several years ago, but haven't done so lately, and I am at a
> complete loss. does Jaunty have something that would prevent the
> forwarding? cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward reports 1
>
> Is NetworkManager getting in the way?
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
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> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor, Information Systems
> Director, Center for Business Solutions
> San Francisco State University
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>
Found the culprit. Ubuntu Jaunty needs dnsmasq for ipmasquerading to
work. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10427/ Installation is going
on smoothly as I write this.
cheers,
Sameer
--
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Information Systems
Director, Center for Business Solutions
San Francisco State University
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://cbs.sfsu.edu/
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