RE: [cobalt-developers] Cobalt OS & VMware Howto?

["Malcolm Wild" <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Correct

I used a RaQ3 restore CD, and put it into the Win2k CDRom then booted up a
VMware virtual machine.

It boots correctly off the CD as if you were doing a Xover-cable restore.
But it can't find the server as  i want it to install on the local machine
anyway. It does prompt for an option 'install code' which i guessed was an
ISO name as it only takes about 8 characters.

I'm open to suggestions



-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Siao Yuan
Tan
Sent: 12 April 2001 11:31
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] Cobalt OS & VMware Howto?


If I am right, you cannot do that because the OS will try to detect the
model of your hardware.  Cobalt store some parameter in the EEPROM.
Therefore even if u try to install a RaQ3 iso to RaQ4 machine, it will not
work!!!

Siao Tan

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Malcolm
Wild
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:22 PM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-developers] Cobalt OS & VMware Howto?



I posted this sometime ago and got alot of people scratching their heads but
no real answers!

I want to install RaQ3 or RaQ4 OS under VMware (or even on a spare x86 box)
so that we can run config tests and custom scripts without killing a
production box.

I know as a developer we can get cheaper boxes for testing, but All our
other platforms (NT/2000/Solaris8/Linux) have a test setup on a Win2k dell
poweredge with VMware powering virtual machines, so we can switch between
differenet platforms.

I know I can download the .iso files from Cobalt but they require cable boot
and input via the front panel etc.

Has anyone got any ideas on how this could be done?????????????????


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