From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 7:58:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249EB37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:58:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from LOUEX1.powercreative.com (louex1.powercreative.com [216.26.166.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4303443F79 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dionysos@mail.dionysia.org) Received: from mail.dionysia.org ([172.16.3.7]) by LOUEX1.powercreative.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:58:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:58:08 -0500 Subject: Re: running freebsd os cobalt machines ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Dan Delaney To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <453C617B-391F-11D7-BAA5-003065B0995C@garbage.dk> Message-Id: <9E81B43E-3922-11D7-BF6A-000A27E2A402@mail.dionysia.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Feb 2003 15:58:28.0382 (UTC) FILETIME=[6C4B33E0:01C2CD2F] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 10:34 AM, Thomas von Hassel wrote: > i know someone asked this question before: > But no one answered the man ...can anyone tell us if it can or cannot > be done ? Personally, I doubt it. The Cobalt is not a generic machine, and it runs a highly modified version of RedHat Linux. To install a new version of RedHat onto it you have to install it onto the drive on ANOTHER machine, apply the kernel patches, then put the drive back into the Cobalt. The reason I doubt that you could put a BSD on it is because of these Linux kernel patches that are needed to even make the OS boot up on the Cobalt. But who knows. I've never tried putting a BSD on a Cobalt, but I have put a new version of RedHat on one. It's a pain. Read through the following site (which explains how to get a new version of RedHat on a Cobalt) and see if you think it would work for a BSD. http://www.gurulabs.com/rhl-cobalt-howto/ Cheers --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message