<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">For all those asking, this is a Cobalt Cube 3, which has an AMD K6-2, and is quite close to being PC compatible, so vintage Linux does indeed run on it, and folks have gotten NetBSD 3.x/4.x mostly working.<div><br></div><div>I’d just like to do something interesting with it, since mine works 100%, after I successfully created a power supply, with assistance from a kind person who took a photo of the pinout on an original PSU.</div><div><br></div><div>Mine also has an original OS load, from Comcast, on it. Apparently Comcast once sold these as small business web servers, maybe in concert with a business cable internet subscription.</div><div><br></div><div>- Alex<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 20, 2024, at 3:48 PM, Jonathan Chapman via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alex,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Unlikely you'll be able to run Solaris x86 on it, as it's not PC compatible. I think there's a NetBSD bootloader for it, I'd imagine you could coax modern Linux onto it as well with a chainloader (IIRC it has kernel naming and size restrictions as the original MIPS machines did).</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I have one, I need to recap it and hack on it -- mine's got a bunch of bulging capacitors.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Jonathan<br></div>
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On Monday, May 20th, 2024 at 14:46, Alexander Jacocks via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Folks,</div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone attempted to run Solaris x86 on a Cobalt Qube? I have one that is a rather cool looking device, but as a web server it is of course unusable, due to (many, severe!) security issues.</div><div><br></div><div>I was thinking of trying to pay tribute to the combination of Sun and Cobalt by running Solaris x86. To do that, I'd need to install a video card in the PCI slot, which I know would only be visible after boot, but I suspect that's not a big deal. The odd boot mechanism would be more the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone experimented with alternative OSes on the Qube 3 and its RaQ cousins?</div><div><br></div><div>- Alex<br></div></div>
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