I recently picked up one of these on an impulse buy off ebay and while it is set up as a Strongbolt web server at present I would love to use it as a very cool looking home server/NAS - someone on another forum suggested that BSD would be an ideal OS to put on it, but due to the Qube's slightly unusual boot method I'm wondering if was possible to install it?
If your not familiar with the hardware the spec is listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube
I can find a NetBSD port for the older MIPS based Qube 2 but nothing for the i386 based Qube 3
- is there a particular reason why, or is it simply that nobody could be bothered!
If not, could I suggest that someone with coding skills vastly superior to mine might like to consider it as a project - there is a sizeable usebase for these little boxes and this would give them a new lease of life!
Regards,
Jeff
If your not familiar with the hardware the spec is listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube
The original Qube systems were equipped with RM5230 or RM5231 microprocessors but later models used AMD K6-2 chips. NetBSD operating system has been ported to both, the Cobalt Qube and RaQ.
I can find a NetBSD port for the older MIPS based Qube 2 but nothing for the i386 based Qube 3
- is there a particular reason why, or is it simply that nobody could be bothered!
If not, could I suggest that someone with coding skills vastly superior to mine might like to consider it as a project - there is a sizeable usebase for these little boxes and this would give them a new lease of life!
Regards,
Jeff