From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 19:10:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zephir.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5584337B71C for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialin-140-199.hamilton.primus.ca ([209.90.140.199]) by zephir.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #16) id 17NOik-0000fn-0A for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:09:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:09:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt X-X-Sender: leth@lethargic.dyndns.org To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd on cobalt raq3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020626214629.Y5646-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jason Fayre wrote: > Hello, > Has anyone ever tried to get FreeBSD running on a Cobalt RaQ3 1U box? If > so, is there a how-to somewhere? > These are x86 based boxes. > I know that NetBSD has a port for the MIPS cobalt boxes. > No, because the RaQs will only load a kernel off an EXT2 filesystem. So, unless we can start booting BSD off of one of those (EXT2 filesystems), it won't be possible. :) Check out http://www.traumatized.org/linux/cobalt/index.php for how you could run Slackware (or any Linux) on an x86-based Cobalt. The page says that the instructions are for a RaQ4, but I've done it on a RaQ3. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message