** Vic <lug@???> [2010-06-06 14:29]:
> > I've just been given one of these units, and although I've got a good
> > number of links to keep me busy, I thought I'd just see whether anyone
> > else had played with one of these and got Linux running on it.
>
> Yes. I used to run one in a DC until it perished...
>
> They were marketed as web servers originally, but I don't think they're
> especially good for headless operation; Cobalt Linux (which was the
> original configuration, and derived from RHL6.0) only supported ext2 in
> the initrd (which is in flash, IIRC), so a power failure causing a dirty
> shutdown could lead to a need to fsck on the next boot. But Cobalt Linux
> expects a Ctrl-D on the keyboard before it will start that. And there is
> no keyboard...
>
> I wouldn't deploy a RAQ4 into an unattended production environment.
** end quote [Vic]
Thanks for that Vic, I'll have to have a play. It'll only sit in the rack in my
office, so although headless, isn't too much hassle to hook up. I'd been
contemplating using it for something along the lines of a monitoring server or
firewall, and it wouldn't be heavily loaded.
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