[cobalt-users] Re: [Raq4] Restore OS From Windows machine on network

["Jay" <jay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is there anyway I can use a RAQ 550 Restore CD and restore the OS back

> fresh onto a RAQ 4i server appliance.

Boot the Windows machine from the OS Restore CD, and proceed from there.

  Directions are at

	http://www.cobaltfaqs.com/wiki/index.php/OSRestoreProcedure


> I have search high and low to figure out how to even use this restore 
> CD and I can't find a thing.

If you boot the OSRCD in a computer, directions will appear on screen 
after you accept the license agreement.


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OK Cool I have the windows machine booted although I think I am going to
need to go and buy one of the supported network cards.  I have a
terminal connection from my desktop machine through Secure CRT
monitoring the progress of the RAQ 4, but it seems to keep looking for
the connection.

I am going to go and get a new network card that is in the supported
list but the question I do have is under the ROM menu, Lowlevel, cmos
what do you set the "btoip" to?  I don't know what IP address the
windows machine with the OSRCD boots up as.  And the RAQ4 keeps saying
the following:

Sending DHCP and RARP requests ...... timed out!
eth0: 0 multicast blocks dropped.
eth1: 0 multicast blocks dropped.
IP-Config: Retrying forever (NFS root)...

I want to thank everyone for their help otherwise I wouldn't even be
anywhere near this far.

Jay