You might want to contact the Strongbolt2 people to see where they are with 
having a Strongbolt3 version based on BlueOnyx.
http://www.osoffice.co.uk/shop/strongbolt-installer-standard-edition-download-p-9.html

With regards,

Taco Scargo
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On 4 jan 2011, at 22:49, Jeff Folk wrote:

> 
> 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!
>> 
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