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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:14:40 +0100
From:      Volker Kindermann <freebsd@secspace.de>
To:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: running freebsd os cobalt machines ?
Message-ID:  <20030205161440.61d991dd.freebsd@secspace.de>
In-Reply-To: <89A1BD60-38D3-11D7-8E7A-0003936CEB72@garbage.dk>
References:  <89A1BD60-38D3-11D7-8E7A-0003936CEB72@garbage.dk>

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Thomas,

> We are about to inherit some cobalt raq or qube serves from another 
> company. Now i dont know anything about except that they run some 
> flavour of unix. Is it possible to run freebsd on those.

it depends on the version of the Cobalt's. RaQ2 and before had mips
processors. I don't think that freebsd will run on them.

RaQ3 and later have "normal" i386 architecture so it should work.

Please be aware that cobalt has some strange booting recommendations. A
fellow installed netbsd on a raq2 and had to format the root Partition
with ext2 filesystem and so on.

With my experience regarding the hardware failures of cobalt's, I
wouldn't give very much money for them.

 -volker


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