RE: [cobalt-users] raq not detecting 100mb connection, restore halts

["Greg O'Lone" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> We've had this problem from time to time, I've started doing my RaQ 
> installs through Virtual PC with all the OS Restores we've had lately 
> (at least I can work on something else in the mean time) and this 
> usually corrects the problem.
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> the card is good, have done other restores.
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> Is there a way to restore at 10mb?
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> > Use Intel or 3COM card on the pc with good crossover cable
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> > But the OS Restore won't run if it's not at 100mb. if it was just 
> > the light, the restore would run.
> >
> Can you be a little more detailed about 'Virtual PC'. What is it, how
does it work, how did you make it work to restore RaQx OS's, 
> things like that.

> Thanks

Virtual PC is a PC Emulation environment for Windows, Mac & OS/2 (sorry
guys), most of our web development is done using the Macromedia
products, so we have plenty of PCs running Windoze (I know, yuk).
Anyhow, I have found that I can boot the OS Restore CDs under VPC and
get a good solid connection to the RaQs using KTI 10/100 NICS most of
the time. Sometimes I have to reboot and try again, but not often. You
can get VPC without an OS (comes with PC-DOS as I recall), just boot it
like a regular machine with the OS Restore CD in host drive. 

For more info on Virtual PC, see
http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc5w.html. Love this product, makes
my life very easy. Best part is the undoable hard drives. I have base
installations for all the PC OS's I deal with (Linux and several
varieties of Windoze) and when I'm done testing a program, I just undo
the drive and it reverts to the original installed state.

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Greg O'Lone, President
Stretched Out Software, Inc
http://www.stretchedout.com