On Wednesday 05 August 2009 06:36 pm, Michael Sokolov wrote: > I may be interested in some too, in the case that others who spoke > before me don't take all. Did you say they have a special BIOS that > has no pee sea KVM console? Do they have RS-232 serial consoles > instead for boot control? If so, that's exactly what I want! I hate > pee sea KVM consoles as a reprehensible abomination, the console must > always be RS-232 serial in my world. I've been using Sun SPARC gear > instead of x86 just so I can have a serial console instead of KVM, > but if there is an x86 machine that is not infested with the KVM > disease, I would certainly be curious to at least look at it!
So far no one has spoken for any. I really don't know if they have any method for botting through serial or not. The best thing to do would be to start googling: cobalt raq and see what you find. Ken (the friend who gave them to me) and I (when I used a few which Cobalt gave me before they were bought out by Sun) simply used them for webhosting. They used their own version of Linux based on an early Red Hat distro, but installed through proprietary code through a crossover ethernet cable. You simply booted a PC with a compatible NIC with a crossover cable, using their CD (downloadable ISO) and they worked. Now that Sun no longer makes the software there are still places where you can download it and/or other distributions which have been modified for it. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
