[cobalt-users] RE: cobalt-users digest, Vol 1 #6500 - 17 msgs

["Jay" <jay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jay wrote:

> > 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.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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)...

that indicates that your network card is incompatible with the
OS restore process running on the PC.
The server is not communicating with the PC
You are using a hub/switch or a crossover cable?


I am using a crossover cable for this.  But as per my last post, I was
in mucking around on the ROM MENU and I think I may have screwed some of
it up.

Will that be over written on the restore as well (SETTINGS ATLEAST)?  I
was reading somewhere else on how to do the install and tried to do it
their way and wrote the net boot address to the IP of the machine I was
trying to get to.  I went back in and set it to 0 0 0 0 hoping this will
fix that error of mine as I didn't look to see what it was before I
overwrote it. I know Bad Me.  Going to go and sit in the corner for a
bit to think about what I have done.

Any thoughts on resetting that?

Jay