[cobalt-users] Re-installing OS on RaQ3

[David Fuchs <dfuchs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

   Does anybody know how to re-install the OS on a RaQ3?  I've spent 
more time than I care to mention trying to do this.
 The RaQ3 does not currently have a working root partition.

   The rescue disc has a README.TXT file stating to connect a crossover 
between the machine with the CDROM and the Cobalt.  I've done this.  The 
README then states to power-on the Cobalt while holding down the left 
and right (arrow) buttons.  I hold them down, turn on the power, and 
wait until I'm blue in the fingers.  The README lastly states to follow 
the instructions on the LCD screen to restore the Cobalt OS.

   Instructions?  Nothing happens when I hold down those buttons except 
some fancy arrow imprints left behind on my fingers for the next two 
minutes (...here comes the rant).  This whole process makes me think: 
What would the server do anyway, it isn't as if it can communicate with 
a CD-ROM on a foreign machine to read boot images without some kind of 
software interface.  The README doesn't say it, but perhaps this method 
is an attempt at a netboot (considering the required crossover)?  That 
would mean that we have a bit of an oversight as I see it, as a BOOTP 
server is a pretty major pre-requisite for a netboot - a pre-requisite 
that isn't actually covered in the README.  No BOOTP agent exists on the 
rescue disc either (as far as I can tell).

   <sigh> This is getting tedious.  If anybody out there can give me 
some help, or point me in the right direction, I'd be very appreciative 
- I might even sell you my Cobalt for a six pack. =]

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-David Fuchs
Systems Software Developer
UNIServe Online

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