2 - Updates on the Qube 2

Author: sgeorge, Posted on: 15 May 2026 13:53

Luckily someone has archived all the qube2 + raq2 patches for us, so one of the first things we need to do is get all those patch on!

in a specific order 


Qube2-All-Security-3.0.1-8061.pkg
Qube2-en-OSUpdate-4.0.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.2-8747.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.2-9353.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.7-8762.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.1-9531.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.2-9077.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.1-9648.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.1-9878.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.1-10098.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.1-10108.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.1-10125.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.2-9769.pkg
Qube2-All-System-4.0.1-9925.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.1-10750.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.1-13323.pkg
Qube2-All-System-4.0.1-14559.pkg
Qube2-All-Security-4.0.1-15417.pkg

Once thats done, and we do another long reboot (1 hour for it to come back up after checking disk and quotas).

I also compared the Qube 2 restore vs RAQ2 restore, the Qube2 is "190-00110-04" and RAQ2 is "190-00104-06", which makes the qube2 look newer than the RAQ2, but the RAQ2 is actually the later version (561) vs Qube2's (498)!

I did grab two packages I didn't have from the RAQ2 recovery cd (I checked, none of the binaries are dynamic, so no problems with missing library versions). 


nfsroot/bto-sync/bundles/90_MIPS-OpenSSH-3.4p1-PM4.pkg

(you need to add exceptions to your ~/.ssh/config for deprecated algorithms to ssh in) once I had ssh, I scp'd the package over and installed bzip2 


nfsroot/bto-sync/production/2800R_2.561/rpms/bzip2-0.9.0c-1.mips.rpm

Now its time to get rid of this annoying disk check and disk quota check on boot up, first thing was to unpack all the RPM's into one of my workstation machines,

doing a grep for checking disk gives us;

./special-sauce-2800wg_english-4.4-17.noarch/etc/cobalt/messages/english.txt:checkingDisk|'Checking disk...'|

so its somewhere in the 'special sauce'.

Also, I find it REALLY bizarre that the language section has a 'jive' messages, with everything converted like 


homeUsageHelp|'View disk usage data.  Sheeeiit.'|
homeUsersHelp|'Click here t‘see some list uh registered users, email addresses and plantation pages on dis server.  Ah be baaad...'|

Maybe someone thought they were being funny but ugh :( (I dont think its selectable but it is on disk).

tags: Cobalt, MIPS, Qube

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