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Re: [cobalt-users] Installing a different OS

On Friday, January 11, 2002, at 03:53  pm, Curtis Ross wrote:


I was wondereing if anyone has installed another Operating system on a
cobalt box.

My Raq 4 has just arrived and it seems to have to monitor, keyboard or
mouse ports. It also has no cd but this is not a problem with scsi.

I'd like to install Redhat 7.2 or OpenBSD 3, but this would mean
destroying the data allready on there.

I want to do this in the interest of security. I would feel safer

having

an OS that i can fully trust - i don't know this distro at all.

So I'm looking for any information from people who have installed

other

operating systems, specifcally hardware related issues.  I'm also
interested in how the installation was performed - ie - with no

monitor

or keyboard.

Any help would be much appreciated..

Cheers,
Jacob


Okay I have to ask.....
Why would you buy a Cobalt only to blow away what you are paying for?
Why not buy a 'white' box and do the RedHat load on there?

Curtis
While this may bug you, I don't the rest of the list needs to hear about it - but as I've received a few private mails on the subject - i'll try and finish it here...
Firstly, my job involves getting to know various distos - so getting a fresh untouched system is invaluable.
I've had many problems with hardware on *nix distros, and as this box is going to be co-located away from the office, I wanted to have something to fall back on - ie the supplied OS, also size and rack-mounted were issues.
I don't want to have a lot to do with this box after its up and running, so either I put on an OS that I know or I tie down the supplied OS. Additionally, the box was bought from the ISP that will be hosting it, so hardware support will be reliable.
Anyhow, white boxes are so 90's, gotta keep with the times to keep the suits excited. 

J.