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Re: [cobalt-users] Installing a different OS

Fantastic, just what I was looking for.
One thing this doesn't cover is the raid 1 setup that I have. I have looked on cobalts site but I can't find much information on this, any thoughts?
I'm guessing I just set the raid up on another box, but I'm wondering if it may be tied to the cobalt bios or something else.
It also looks like Linux will be my safest bet, although it would be interesting to see how a BSD kernel runs. It sounds like the kernel needs to be in /dev/hda1, so I wonder if this is hard coded and therefore limits the OS to Linux.
I hadn't looked a cobalt-developers, there is some good info there - i think that's probably the best place to discuss this, so check there for updates. 

Cheers,
J.


On Friday, January 11, 2002, at 09:15  pm, Nico Meijer wrote:


Hi Jacob,


I was wondereing if anyone has installed another Operating system on a
cobalt box.
Yes, some folks have. Not me, but I'll get around it in a matter of some weeks, I hope (RaQ3)... 


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.


It doesn't "seem" to have: it *hasn't*. :-)


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.
This is a pretty good description for Slackware 8. Heck, Slack is Linux, RH is Linux; you'll prolly be fine. http://traumatized.org/linux/cobalt/index.php. Wouldn't know about OpenBSD.
I can't figure out what the guy does with his kernels (maybe I'm misreading here, or maybe it's just not there ;-P), but there's some stuff in the archives: 
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-
developers/2001-December/034938.html
The entire thread is called "Raq3 Kernel compiling problems". Read it.
Sign up on developer.cobalt.com and head for the tech notes. You should get at least DTN6-1-1 (RaQ3), but DTN21-0-0 also lists RaQ4/XTR and Qube3.
If you get the stuff to work, don't ever call it a RaQ[whatever-serial-number's-on-the-box] anymore, or Bruce Timberlake will personally come over and kick your *ss. ;-) [Thanks, Bruce, for the heads up on the 'legal department'!] 

Plus, post your findings here! I already ruined my warranty. :-)

Good luck... Nico

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