From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 7:14:50 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 D008037B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:14:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from astarte.volker.de (p5089164C.dip.t-dialin.net [80.137.22.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23DCA43F75 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Received: from astarte.volker.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by astarte.volker.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h15FEeY9000627 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:14:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:14:40 +0100 From: Volker Kindermann 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message