Re: [cobalt-users] Have SUN stopped supporting XTR?

[Ryan Verner <xfesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:31:12 -0400 Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| We have not been able to reliably boot the new OS,
| we did get redhat and debian working in a somewhat reliable fashion!
| But we need absolute reliability!
| Not much anyone can do unless they have the ability to hack the cobalt kernel 
| code.

Hack cobalt kernel code?  Sun give this out as open source?

My XTR's just x86, and looking at the dmesg, a standardish linux kernel will work.  There's no reason why I can't see why Debian won't run on it - just actually installing it's going to be the fun part. :-/

Aren't RAQ3's MIPS based?  Can't see what exactly needs to be hacked... but you've obviously been looking at this longer than I have.  Care to fill us in? ;-)

FYI I have a bunch of debian packages which I use on a commercial debian hybrid I sell.  Its very modular, and is very close to doing what the cobalt does (at the moment its more aimed at firewalls/gateways, but its not hard to change).

Sigh.  Wish there was a way to put Debian on my XTR remotely :-/

How do the XTR Restore CD's work?  I've never even touched or looked at an XTR before physically :-)

R
 
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