Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 -->> RaQ4 with OS..?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chad wrote:

> Can't an RaQ3 be retstored with the RaQ4 OS restore CD
> to bring it slightly up-to-date (obviously not talking
> about hardware)? I asked my NOC today to pull one of
> my RaQ3's and restore it with the RaQ4 restore CD, but
> they claim it can't be done.

Maybe because it can't be done without them violating the license, and
maybe because they value their business too much to violate the license.

The earliest RaQ4 update CDs WOULD update a RaQ3.  Some later ones
didn't; they errored out during some kind of hardware test.  I have no
idea about the most recent.

> If so, why was rackshack able to take RaQ3's and load
> it with the RaQ4 OS and sell them as RaQ4's? I also
> thought the RaQ3 refub machines sold at
> http://www.webhostsupply.com/ came with the RaQ4 OS
> installed
> http://www.webhostsupply.com/Qstore/p000010.htm

There are plenty of unscrupulous companies around.  While Cobalt might
have looked the other way you have to ask yourself, "would Sun?".

> Is this truly not possible? If so, I'm going to have
> the units pulled and sell them off on E-bay

Let me know when they go on sale; they make great name-servers.  They'll
probably run Plesk pretty well, too.

Jeff
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