[rescue] printing alternatives?

[Robert Darlington]

Oh, that "RaQ 3/4 Note was a cut/paste from this site:

http://www.netbsd.org/ports/cobalt/

Sorry for not clarifying.

On 7/6/07, Robert Darlington <rdarlington at gmail.com> wrote:
> The RaQ 4 is a K6-2 CPU.
>
> RaQ 3/4 Note
>
> Note that the i386-based RaQ 3, RaQ 3i and RaQ 4 models are not
> supported by the cobalt port.
>
> I think I'm up a creek, and I guess I can use this box as a paddle!
> When the day comes to throw it out, I will mail the list.
>
> Bob
>
> On 7/6/07, Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:
> > The steam powered teletype chattered and a message from Robert Darlington
> > rolled out in a wad of paper tape...
> > > Speaking of Cobalt.  I have an old Cobalt RaQ 4 that I once tried to
> > > put back into use with Fedora using the 2.6 kernel maintained by the
> > > original kernel hackers that worked for Cobalt.  This was incredibly
> > > painful to get setup.  Every time  the power went out I had to
> > > transplant the disk into another system to perform an fsck just to get
> > > the sucker to boot back up.
> > >
> > > Are there other operating systems that will work on these things now?
> > > The box was a decent file server when it ran, but sooooo annoying when
> > > the power cycled.
> >
> > NetBSD! NetBSD Baby!  ;-)
> >
> > There's also a Debian port out there as well.
> >
> > Wait!  You're talking about RaQ 4 right?  That's an x86 box so almost
> > anything will work as long as you can either manually install the software
> > or do a net-boot install.
> >
> > For all my Qube, Qube2/RaQ2 (MIPS) boxes though I'm using NetBSD Cobalt.
> >
> > Mike Hebel
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