Re: [cobalt-users] iBook or PowerBook for OS restore?

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Wonderful news then.... and I humbly stand corrected - though now that I know you
came up with a recipe that works for you, I'd say it's not for the faint of heart,
and I am unwilling to go through the technical permutations and combo of OS'
gyrations neccessaary to use a mac to do it   when a an old 486 Win laptop works
just finerooo for me

More power to ya Samuel :)

cg

Samuel Yeats wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Why does it work for me then? I was for a while contemplating a Windows
> laptop because I frequently use terminal services and do the odd restore of
> my cobalts. I decided to stick with my mac and attempt to live without these
> options. I now run Windows .NET Server Beta 3, XP Pro and Linux 7.3 from
> Virtual PC and it works fine. It took a lot of tweaking to get the cobalt
> restore system going, but now it works really well, and without errors.
>
> Regards,
>
> Samuel
>
> > Tom & Tim et all -
> > the answer is no - neither iBook or Powermac will work using PC emulation
> > software - (such as Virtual PC or the like )- emulators by neccesity, run a
> > routine which interferes with direct hardware communication - which is
> > required to run the OS Restrore routines.  Haven't tried it using command line
> > interface on Mac OS X yet. Even though it's based on BSD kernel  rather than
> > RH - it might work, but I sort of doubt it due to dicey NIC issue mentioned
> > below.
> >
> > However, there are many quality used laptop dealers on the net, Toshiba's
> > older line - the Portege series is reliable and parts are plentiful if you're
> > on a tighter budget.
> >
> > Suggestion to keep in mind: the NIC card mfr. is a particularly picky thing
> > with some of Cobalt's OS Restore CD's depending on which model machine you're
> > trying to restore.
> >
> > Prior to purchasing any new or used laptop or desktop box which such a
> > dedicated use in mind (restoring blue boxes), I'd do a select search on the
> > Cobalt archives including words, like NIC, network interface card and restore
> > to see how closely you can narrow down the specific parameters required for
> > your model of RaQ or Qube.
> >
> > Wishing you well -
> >
> > Cecile Glassy
> >
> > Tim Dunn wrote:
> >
> >>> Has anyone successfully used an Apple iBook or PowerBook to perform an OS
> >>> restore on a RaQ?
> >>
> >> Shooting off the cuff, I would doubt it.  The restore CD is redhat,
> >> and designed to book x86.  Perhaps you can boot it off a virtual
> >> PC, but I'd not wager it'll be able to support the network interface.
> >>
> >> tim
> >>
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