The firmware from the old Cobalt RaQ servers has been released as OpenSource, and the BlueQuartz project is the “active” version of it. I wanted to play around with it, but had a hard time finding a way to install it short of creating a new server. So I did one better and created a VMware virtual machine.
The Basics:
- This was created from the NuOnce BlueQuartz + CentOS ISO image.
- You can download VMware Player here. It’s free and cross-platform.
- The file (I’ll link at the end) is 284MB. It’s compressed with tar and bzip2 (.tar.bz2). Uncompressed, it’s around 800-900MB. The disk image is set to 6GB.
- I distribute this without any warranty at all. All I did was make it a VMware image.
- It will come up with the IP of 192.168.1.6 and a netmask of 255.255.255.0. (In hindsight, I wish I had saved this image before I had to configure the network.)
- You can log in on the console as root with the password of admin. Obviously, this should be changed if this machine will face the Internet at all.
- The web interface is reachable at http://192.168.1.6/ (it’ll redirect you to its port).
- Please, don’t deep-link to this file. By all means, link to this page. You’re also welcome to distribute this image however you see fit, and I’d be more than happy if you hosted it somewhere else. All I can really take credit for was getting the ISO to load inside a VMware instance and save it. It’s OpenSource software and NuOnce is to credit for the installation.
The Link: http://ttwagner.com/BlueQuartz.tar.bz2 [284 MB]
