Has anyone ever tried to install 4.0 or 4.1 on an old Sun RaQ 550 Cobalt machine? If so would you be willing to share your procedure and experience?
I have spent several hours googling and have found how to do this with Fedora Core 1 using a 2.4 kernel. However I am wondering what Cobalt specific patches have to be applied to get 2.6 kernel to work. I have not found anything related to building a functional 2.6 kernel for the RaQ 550. Otherwise, I am assuming that the install procedure would be very similar for Centos 4.1 and Fedora Core 1.
Paul R. Ganci wrote on Sunday, 2 October 2005 8:28 AM:
Has anyone ever tried to install 4.0 or 4.1 on an old Sun RaQ 550 Cobalt machine? If so would you be willing to share your procedure and experience?
I have spent several hours googling and have found how to do this with Fedora Core 1 using a 2.4 kernel. However I am wondering what Cobalt specific patches have to be applied to get 2.6 kernel to work. I have not found anything related to building a functional 2.6 kernel for the RaQ 550. Otherwise, I am assuming that the install procedure would be very similar for Centos 4.1 and Fedora Core 1.
We used to have some of those. I believe the Cobalt RaQ 550 is MIPS-based. I am not sure there is a version of Centos that runs on MIPS processors.
If you do find an answer to this, please share it with the list. I would love to resurrect some of those boxes with Centos and BlueQuartz!
Sincerely, Trevor Hammonds
We used to have some of those. I believe the Cobalt RaQ 550 is MIPS-based. I am not sure there is a version of Centos that runs on MIPS processors.
RaQ550 uses PentiumIII Should run CentOS, but the BIOS ROM may give trouble
If you do find an answer to this, please share it with the list. I would love to resurrect some of those boxes with Centos and BlueQuartz!
Gerald
Gerald Waugh wrote:
RaQ550 uses PentiumIII Should run CentOS, but the BIOS ROM may give trouble.
The RaQ 550's came with a 2.4 kernel so if I decided to stay with a distribution using a 2.4 kernel there would be no problem. The lastest (i.e. last) ROM version is 2.10.3 which from what I googled seemed to be the version that most everyone flashed (my RaQs came with version 2.9.38). As usual this is the most dangerous step but also the most well documented step. Most people's experience was positive.
What I haven't been able to find are the kernel config options/patches necessary to make a 2.6 kernel work on the Cobalt hardware. I did find someone who claimed to have succesfully installed Centos 4.1 and Blue Quartz on a RaQ 550, but alas he did not publish the procedure as he promised. Unfortunately I don't have a contact for the fellow.
Fortunately I do have a RaQ 550 that I can actually try the bits and pieces I have learned to attempt such an install. I will certainly share my experience, although this is a "as time permits", back burner, weekend project. I suspect I will end up with a Centos install with a 2.4 kernel.
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