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    Question New RaQ3 user

    Just bought a RaQ3, and was wondering if patches/updates have to be installed in a certain order? If so, please advise if possible.

    Don't want to mess things up

    Cheers!

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    Patches must be installed from the bottom up on the sun patch page. Also, even with the system fully patched is is vulnerable to a number of exploits. As such we do not recommend Raq 3 for production use.

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    If you just bought it, I would recommend installing the RaQ 550 OS on it. Get the CD image at ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/iso/

    Also, if you can max the RAM out, it will be happiest. You can put up to 1 GB in it (2 512MB DIMMs), although it officially holds 512 MB max.
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    Does it need hardware upgrades too? (CPU, HD etc)
    I believe it has a 300mhz AMD, so would the motherboard support a 500mhz AMD?

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    Is the RaQ4 ok for light production use? Was thinking of installing it on my RaQ3, as not too sure about doing the 550 upgrade

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    Last I checked there were outstanding local exploit issues for the Raq 4 relating to bind, sendmail and the kernel. The latter one, if I remember correctly, is a timing attack and is not easy to exploit. As no Raqs have a viable management path at this point we do not recommend them.

    Plesk, Ensim (Raq 3/4 only), and CPanel all have migration tools. We have found moving to Plesk to be the least intrusive in terms of email because you can still use raq style logins. (Just the username not username@domain.com). We have had fewer issues with scripts moving over to ensim than plesk, but both platforms work well.

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    Originally posted by BruceT
    Also, if you can max the RAM out, it will be happiest. You can put up to 1 GB in it (2 512MB DIMMs), although it officially holds 512 MB max. [/B]
    does it take just standard PC133? i just bought mine (should be here tomorrow) and whats the max hdd that you can cram into these things

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    The RAM is actually just PC-100. I think PC-133 downgrades perfectly though.

    HD depends on the ROM version, but no matter what, I think in the 120 GB range is tops. Earlier ROMs limited to you 40 GB or 80 GB if I recall correctly.
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    thanks

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