Re: [cobalt-users] Disk image download or CD purchase

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"George Simpson" <gasjr4wd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> You use to be able to download the OS disks images from the web. I need
the
> disk for my Raq 2. Where is the link?

They're available via FTP.  ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/iso/  Read
README.txt to find the best ISO for your system.

> (if I can install something newer, like the raq 3 image on it, that will
> work also.)  :)

RaQ2 runs mips architecture.  It was the last RaQ to use that architecture
so you cannot install an ISO from a later generation RaQ which are x86
based.  You could install the RaQ1, Qube1, or Qube2 ISO, though I doubt
you'd want to.

> And how about running anything else on it? As long as it has a GUI.

There's a mailing list for those interested in running Debian on a Cobalt
mips machine.  See http://devel.alal.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-22.  Doing
so isn't trivial.  And webmin can be run on a RaQ2, though it's important to
understand that it's not 100% compatible with Cobalt's modified RedHat so
there are modules that are probably best not to touch.  Or at least there
were when I played with it on a RaQ2 for a while somewhere between 2 or 3
years ago.

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