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Title: SME on an old Cobalt Qube 3 (intel)
Post by: phubner on May 26, 2005, 12:28:42 AM

Hi All,

I've searched the forums and the web and have only seen references _comparing_ SME and Cobalt servers.

Has anyone loaded SME on a Cobalt box with the intel processor?  My Qube 3's OS is so out of date, the box is currently a paperweight, err doorstop acutally...  I have SME loaded on a few PC servers and it is great for my needs.

thanks for any replies,
Paul

Title: Re: SME on an old Cobalt Qube 3 (intel)
Post by: Quail_Linux on May 26, 2005, 08:46:36 PM

Quote from: "phubner"

Hi All,

I've searched the forums and the web and have only seen references _comparing_ SME and Cobalt servers.

Has anyone loaded SME on a Cobalt box with the intel processor?  My Qube 3's OS is so out of date, the box is currently a paperweight, err doorstop acutally...  I have SME loaded on a few PC servers and it is great for my needs.

thanks for any replies,
Paul

Hi Paul,

The following is a technical recipe or "howto" document for one successful procedure to install the Red Hat Linux distribution onto a Sun Cobalt Qube 3 model internet appliance.

http://www.gurulabs.com/ocontent/rhl-cobalt-howto/redhat.qube3.howto.6.html

Oh and this is the procedure used for install Red Hat 7.2, and SME is based on Red Hat 7.3 so it should get you out of trouble

HTH

Title: SME on an old Cobalt Qube 3 (intel)
Post by: phubner on May 27, 2005, 04:22:30 AM

:-) Thanlks for the reference.  I'll give it a try this weekend.

Paul

Title: SME on an old Cobalt Qube 3 (intel)
Post by: forumuser7 on May 29, 2005, 09:39:50 PM

Cobalt Qube is quite old indeed,
but have looked at this site:
http://bluequartz.org/
There are RAQ and Qube3 ports to RedHat and Fedora...

Hope this helps!

Title: SME on an old Cobalt Qube 3 (intel)
Post by: jfarschman on June 01, 2005, 01:48:06 AM

Paul,

  Don't try it.  The Qube doesn't have a video output.  That's going to make the install pretty tricky.  The SME install needs a monitor and keyboard for the initial configuration.

  I'd recommend checking out the aftermarket on ebay.  I't probably worth something to someone.

Title: SME on an old Cobalt Qube 3 (intel)
Post by: phubner on June 15, 2005, 11:58:15 PM

Though I used to be able to do a Rubics Cube in the dark
(showing my age?) I think you are right - the Cobalt Qube3 would be another story.

Thanks for all the help,
Paul

Title: SME on an old Cobalt Qube 3 (intel)
Post by: kmccarn on June 16, 2005, 02:06:14 PM

Of course - you could try putting a vga card in the pci slot....

 :pint:

Title: SME on an old Cobalt Qube 3 (intel)
Post by: jfarschman on June 16, 2005, 03:27:05 PM

You will need to have keyboard and video.  Since the Qube has only one PCI slot, it will have to be a combo card.

The only real way to go about it is a bit complicated and not really work the time.

Title: SME on an old Cobalt Qube 3 (intel)
Post by: gregswallow on June 16, 2005, 04:44:03 PM

I'm not familiar at all with this hardware.  But you could try installing SME on the hard drive from your Cube with the hard drive in another computer, set it up for remote access and move the hard drive back.  You'll have to know what nic's are in the cube and manually select them I guess.  Might work...