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Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
« on: June 02, 2010, 06:59:36 PM »
Hi everyone,

This is a shot in the dark but I wanted to give it a try and ask your opinion. Where I work we have several of these cards:

http://www.compucanjes.com/prod_images/0000013970_1.jpg

It is a Compaq Remote Insight Board Lights-Out Edition II. It is a full blown computer with it's own Video/Mouse/KB/Ethernet/Power connectors but on a PCI card (Remember the Siamese PCI Amiga prototype?). If you look closer you can see a PowerPC 405GP CPU, an ATI Rage XL chip for the video, an XLINK Spartan Chip XC2S150 and a few ribbon cable connectors which I am not sure what they are. I remember reading online about some steps used to load a version of redHat linux on those cards. Could such a card be used to install AOS 4 or MorphOS on it?

I'll try to take some better pictures as soon as I can.
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Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2010, 07:02:43 PM »
No
 

Offline outlawal2

Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2010, 07:34:00 PM »
Not a chance...
 

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Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2010, 07:54:01 PM »
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Not a chance...


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Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2010, 09:28:16 PM »
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Curiosity sparked the question and I know It was a long shot. Oh well! Back to overpriced obsolete hardware as an option.

I wouldn't exactly called 2nd hand PPC Macs overpriced.
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Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2010, 12:13:45 AM »
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I wouldn't exactly called 2nd hand PPC Macs overpriced.


I would :)
 

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Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2010, 12:20:32 AM »
Hey your avatar is a magic drop shoop!

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Offline Matt_H

Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2010, 02:59:47 AM »
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I would :)


This shouldn't exactly break the bank.
 

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Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2010, 03:49:04 AM »
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This shouldn't exactly break the bank.

I thought Morphos only worked on MacMini's ? :afro:
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