From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 10:47:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD81C37C0CD for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:47:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpr@vcnet.com) Received: (qmail 85155 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 18:47:09 -0000 Received: from joff.vc.net (HELO ?209.239.239.22?) (209.239.239.22) by mail.vcnet.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2000 18:47:09 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:47:08 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jon Rust Subject: Re: Cobalt RaQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aren't they based on a RISC processor? I didn't think they were x86-based. That would make it, um, sort of difficult. jon At 12:09 PM -0500 2/24/00, Brian Anderson wrote: >On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > >> They say that there are not plans to support FreeBSD on these. I've not >> had a chance to really rip one apart, but I'm curious if anyone else here >> has -- surely it must be possible; the contention point being any of their >> proprietary software. > > >i had one in bits next to me last week. > >the thing that would make it difficult to put something else on them would >be the configuration. > >the front panel has a small lcd and some buttons, which is where the >configuration is done. so software for that would have to be written. then >the ongoing config is all through a series of web applications, which >would need to be ported. there is no keyboard/monitor connector, so >network access is critical. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message