From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 8:25:39 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 8BF2D37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:25:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from temp.w4b.dk (mx3.w4b.dk [130.227.212.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48C843F85 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:25:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from t@garbage.dk) Received: from garbage.dk (0x50c482a1.adsl-fixed.tele.dk [80.196.130.161]) (AUTH: LOGIN t*garbage.dk) by temp.w4b.dk with esmtp; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:33:00 +0100 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:25:29 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: running freebsd os cobalt machines ? From: Thomas von Hassel To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <70B2C589-3926-11D7-8E7A-0003936CEB72@garbage.dk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) 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 04:58 PM, Dan Delaney wrote: > 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/ ok thanx, i dont even know yet how old the machines are and what models they are. I just dont like to run productions servers on 3 year old technology with no possibility to upgrade/secure them /thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message