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    Question Good for anything?

    Are the raq servers actually good for anything anymore?

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    Quote Originally Posted by scriptpal View Post
    Are the raq servers actually good for anything anymore?
    yes, home server(s), i have 5.

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    but they are so slow and the OS is so limited

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    Quote Originally Posted by scriptpal View Post
    but they are so slow and the OS is so limited
    They are fine to serve HTML/CSS.

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    suppose, shame they cant be used as small file servers

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    it depends on what and how you want to use them.
    I have since stopped using them and now have more than 10 sitting in my room...

    But from what I have done with them before, they can be file servers if you get a larger HDD, up the ram a little change the Kernel and modify the OS and basically spend more money than you are suppose to...
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    Quote Originally Posted by galacnet View Post
    it depends on what and how you want to use them.
    I have since stopped using them and now have more than 10 sitting in my room...

    But from what I have done with them before, they can be file servers if you get a larger HDD, up the ram a little change the Kernel and modify the OS and basically spend more money than you are suppose to...
    Wish i could get hold of your 10! I have always used them as they are small light weight and use hardly any power.. shame there is no modern alternative!

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    Hey,
    one of my RaQ's (I have 8) is working as a torrent downloader with Torrentflux. It's upgraded with Strongbolt 1 OS.

    I also have a RaQ 4 running the original RaQ OS with all the updates I found and a 2.4 series kernel. Just to play with it and test some modifications before upload them to my website.

    Very happy with them, small noise, small power, and super nice looking!!!

    Alberto.

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    I have 10 left from my RaQ days. Just pulled 3 from a cabinet last week that were perfect nameserver boxes, running djbdns/tinydns on Ubuntu. Ultra-reliable and rock solid. Absolutely ideal for the job.

    Brandon

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    They're fine as long as you're not intending to deploy mission-critical materials. The old RaQ2's can be loaded with the NetBSD/Cobalt port, rather than having to use the vanilla Cobalt Linux OS which is horribly out-of-shape. The RaQ 3 and 4 series have a variety of loadable platforms, but keep in mind that these lil' guys were EOL'd many years back.

    I have a few lying around for when I have some time to tinker around, but as mentioned, are fine for small web/dns/mail servers, maybe on your LAN at home...

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    i would love to get my hands on a RAQ or 2, have always been intrigued by them but never gotten my hands on one, if anyone fancies donating 1 or 2 let me know, lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by scriptpal View Post
    Are the raq servers actually good for anything anymore?

    I was kinda wondering that myself. Actually what I am really wondering is why there is still a forum category for them? We've long since stopped using them and ended up just tossing them, as well as customer units as well.

    Sun really did a fantastic job of killing a nice niche's product.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rasputin View Post
    I was kinda wondering that myself. Actually what I am really wondering is why there is still a forum category for them? We've long since stopped using them and ended up just tossing them, as well as customer units as well.

    Sun really did a fantastic job of killing a nice niche's product.
    I love the look of them just like everyone here but I wouldn't say that Sun killed them off. There are PLENTY of great 1U servers that are low power and look nice. I say we keep them as relics of the old bubble and move on.

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    Raqs are always usefull => install blueonyx on it and you'll see ;-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by achel View Post
    install blueonyx on it and you'll see ;-)
    how do you install it?

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    just follow the tuto here http://www.mr-webcam.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=23

    It rocks

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    Quote Originally Posted by scriptpal View Post
    suppose, shame they cant be used as small file servers
    I run StrongBolt 1 on two XTRs (1GHz processor with 512MB RAM) as file servers using SMB. THey are RAID5 and run fine as home file servers. I have one set up with four 80 gig drives in it, the other with four 320s that I had laying around. They're a bit noisy, but I have them in a closet since they don't generate a bunch of heat. I used to run an intranet page that pulled in RSS feeds, local news and weather, but did a reinstall and haven't rebuilt it. I'm not that savvy with web, so it took a while to do initially, and I dread having to go through all that again.

    Scott

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    Quote Originally Posted by chemikalguy View Post
    I run StrongBolt 1 on two XTRs (1GHz processor with 512MB RAM) as file servers using SMB.

    Scott
    I mis-spoke. They both have 1gig of RAM...

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    Hi chemical ... could you explain me how you have installed with strongbolt RAID5 ??? the install only permit raid 1 ...

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    Honestly, I don't remember how I did it. I think I did the initial install with a single drive, added the remaining three drives, updated, upgraded to CentOS 5, and then made it RAID 5. I do know that I added a bunch of packages that weren't installed in BlueQuartz. That said, the system is down now anyway. I tried, and failed, a full reinstall. I was trying to reinstall and upgrade back to BlueOnyx, but for some reason it's not working. I'm currently running CentOS 5.4 and using Webmin to manage it.

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    Cause I just install my new xtr this morning under blueonyx this morning ... :p

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    Did you have any trouble? Mine would install, and after a few minor issues, wouldn't let me in via the SSH after the reboot, and the website was the default Apache site. After that, I couldn't get in to do anything else.

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    MMMMh if you have problem I'm going to update my tutorial on how install blueonyx on raq 3 / 5 and XTR after you just have to follow the tutorials on Mr Webcam forum (for the screen the mionitoring of temperatures etc)

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    Yeah, Mr Webcam's tutorials, along with his personal help was what I tried. TOgether the two of us couldn't figure out why it wasn't working properly. We gave up and used Webmin instead. It works well, and does RAID 5.

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    Just look to my tutorial on http://www.openskill.lu in the news section you have the pdf => don'r follow th procedure of resizing partition (like a totaly dumb I never saw that there is isolinux booting cause the video card of my candy box could'nt print my resolution :p now I have seen that with the syslinux desktop you have a console to size th partitions before installation on the raq).

    => In ne syslinux desktop console type the command noted in it and choose those sizes :

    / : 4096
    /var : 4096
    /temp : 4096
    /swap : 1024

    So you never have a problem with yum update and you never have a totally full partition that could crash your installation.

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