[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD and Cobalt boxes

[Charles Sprickman]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Jesse Callaway wrote:

> Nothing to do with BSD, but replace the fans. They come with really lame mini 
> fans and need good fans of the same dimension.

>From what I heard here, BSD is a no-go on it...  It's got some kind of 
screwy bootrom that only looks for a linux kernel on an ext2 filesystem. 
I'll look elsewhere for tiny and cheap I think...

Charles

> On Nov 1, 2004, at 3:22 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm looking to grab a few of the little 1U cobalt boxes to use as 
>> nameservers.  Any issues I should be aware of under FreeBSD?  Any drivers 
>> for the LCD screen/buttons?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Charles
>> 
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