[BlueOnyx:06251] Re: Newbie Install

[Jeff Folk]

You boot the virtual machine from the Strongbolt ISO.

This is a very convoluted process, and fraught with peril (especially the rom update). There are other ways to get CentOS installed on the RaQ... Basically you need the ext3 kernel for the RaQ, a CentOS install, and the BO tarball. None of the installers will work because the RaQ won't boot the CD (for obvious reasons). There is only limited USB support included in the rom image for the RaQ (it is very small) so you can't use an external.

Honestly, I would not bother (although it would be a crash course in linux/cobalt trivia)... I have an old RaQ 4r and an XTR here gathering dust... parting them out slowly...

I run BO on a give-away HP DC7100. I only spent money on the hard disks. And it has 12 times the power of the old AMD in the RaQ 3, and is 100 times quieter.

On Jan 4, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Bart P wrote:

> 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 <jfolk at qzoneinc.com> 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.
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