Sweet. Thanks for the quick followup. So, I guess this is the plan?
- Boot into my XP VM (I'm using VMWare Fusion) - Connect the USB to DB9 converter (have one!) - mount the ISO in XP - Hyperterm into the RAQ - Reboot RAQ And from that point I'm kind of lost. How to I get it to reboot to that disc I mounted in XP? Or does it boot over a network? I had read up on Strongbolt, but also that's it's unsupported. I had downloaded an ISO of it, but I really want to use something with an active and knowledgeable group (plus free is nice, too). Thanks again for your help. Very much appreciated. -Bart On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Folk <[email protected]> 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! > > > > ps: Sorry if this came through twice. I screwed up the mail list sign > up. > > _______________________________________________ > > Blueonyx mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx > > > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx >
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