On Jan 4, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Bart P wrote:

> Howdy!
> 
> I recently acquired a RAQ3 with the Cobalt OS on it and want to get it up to 
> modern times with the BlueOnyx setup.

Congrats... and sorry. Just kidding. I love the Cobalt appliances. They are 
just getting so hard to support.

> It's only got a 10 gig drive, so I plan on swapping it out with a larger one. 
>  It has 256 megs of ram, which I'd like to upgrade as well.
> 
> I have some questions about installing BlueOnyx.
> 
> Is it possible to extract the .iso to a USB drive and boot/install the RAQ 
> from that drive?  Will I be able to do this all through the LCD display?  The 
> first time I turned on the RAQ after purchase it walked me through the 
> network setup and I was good to go. 

Not really possible to boot the RaQ from USB without a custom kernel installed 
to the ROM. (Strongbolt2 accomplished this, but is no longer supported)
Here is a tutorial I found:
http://www.openskill.be/files/2010/01/cobalt.pdf

Easiest way will be to have a PC (or PC VM on your Mac with a USB to DB9 serial 
converter). Maybe the crossover cable will work.

Even easier to use that PC to install BO on itself!!

> All the other computers in my house are Mac based and I don't have a serial 
> port (I know, odd).
> 
> Sorry if these questions are so rudimentary.  There's just no real definitive 
> guides for these systems out there and I'm hoping this mailing list will be 
> of good help.  Just trying to get php on the Cobalt OS gave me fits.  Not to 
> mention that I was not successful.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> ps: Sorry if this came through twice.  I screwed up the mail list sign up.
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