FYI: I received this today...
- Bill
>Hi there,
>
>Please circulate this email accordingly.
>
>Just to let you know I have written this howto for all to see.
>
>http://www.osoffice.co.uk/strongbolt_howto.html
>
>
>Kind Regards
>
>James Mcloughlin
>
>www.osoffice.co.uk
More Background:
>I emailed the company and this is the response I got:
>- Bill
>
>>Good Evening Bill,
>>
>>Thankyou for contacting me.
>>
>>The "Strongbolt" is just an updated cobalt. running centos 3.6 a 2.4
>>kernel, and Bluequartz.
>>
>>The install process is very tricky, and at present I do not have an
>>install cd. I might to get around to creating one at some point.
>>
>>I sell complete units. I have only just started selling them and am not
>>sure whether or not it is going to be worthwhile continuing doing this at
>>present.
>>
>>I am selling the standard Strongbolt (raq4R 512mb ram 40gb) for =A3250.00
>>currently.
>>
>>The idea is to put some life back into these old boxes. They are still
>>good to serve sites for a few years yet I reckon. It is my opinion that
>>webhosting does not require super 3ghz servers, and massive harddrives.
>>
>>Kind Regards
>>
>>James
>>
>>www.osoffice.co.uk
At 04:32 PM 13/02/2006, you wrote:
>Bill,
>
>I have spoken to the gentleman who purchased the strongbolt off ebay and he
>says that it does work and its very good. There is one issues with adding
>vsites but the guy as osoffice is sending him replacement hdds to sort it
>out!
>
>Basically there is no cd rom install or how-to available but he has got a
>hard disk image that he is copying from disk to disk and putting them in
>raqs with upgraded roms. Where the hdd image originated I don't know and I
>don't think I'm close to succeeding.
>
>I'm installing nuonce's bq-cd onto a hdd not rebooting at the end of the
>install and the putting the hdd into a raq3i with 2.10.3 rom with ext3
>support. I just get a kernel panic saying something bout a =3Dinit tag. I=
will
>get the exact error in the morning and post it.
>
>I'm kind of working on the instructions found at
>http://www.gurulabs.com/ocontent/rhl-cobalt-howto/index.html but not
>worrying about the kernel because if I boot from ROM it will be running a
>kernel already capable of ext3 and suitable for the raq.
>
>If anyone has any ideas please feel free to add them as I'm starting to get
>to a bit of a dead end.
>
>BUT, It is possible what ever anyone says! and there is another strongbolt
>available on ebay at the moment. O, and the guy at osoffice will sell you
>just a hdd for you to put in your own raq at a cost (of what I'm not sure).
>
>Thanks
>Jason
>
>At 07:53 PM 29/01/2006, you wrote:
>
>Hi,
>Anyone seen this before?
>http://www.osoffice.co.uk/strongbolt_server_appliances.html
>
>Anyone know how its done? I guess its just nounces CD installed on it but
>how?!? Would be great if I cond get all my raqs on current software!
>
>Thanks
>Jason
>
>Jason,
>
>have you gotten any more info on this?
>
>- Bill
>
>
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