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How To Guide for Installing RaqCop

  1. Make sure you have the newest Flash Rom Available for your Cobalt. There are tons of tutorials about this online so I will not get into great detail on this. At the time of this writing, the newest available Rom for Cobalt Raq3* and Raq4* is cobalt-2.10.3-ext3-1M.rom. You want the ext3 version and the 1M flat file for any Cobalt Raq3* or Raq4* you intend to put RaqCop on.

  2. Take out the OEM 20GB hard drive from the cobalt. Put it into a USB to hard drive converter. Download WinImage and install it. Download our WinImage VM Image of RaqCop. Open WinImage and go to "Disk" then "Restore Virtual Hard Disk Image on physical drive". Choose the USB HDD that you want RaqCop on. Be very careful you do NOT choose your Windows OS partition or any other important HDD. Go grab a Snickers as the build process can take a while (20mins). This process currently is limited to 20GB RaqCop installs. This image will only use up 18.6GB of any drive. Once the WinImage is complete, put the HDD back into the Cobalt as it was.

  3. Now is the tricky part. The Cobalt's are defaulted to look for /boot on hda1 with Rom settings. The older Rom's could only boot from hda1. The 2.10.3 Rom is capable of selecting the boot drive. You did follow step 1 before going on right? Good. :) Turn OFF the Raq. Turn on while holding down the "S" button. When the menu appears, you can let go of the "S". Click the "S" untill you see boot settings. Look for boot drive in the menu and hit "E". Select hda4 as the boot drive. This is very very important or you will get the good ol "Kernel panic" when booting RaqCop. This is also a 1 time setting unless you clear the CMOS.

  4. Once installed and running, you should see the hostname / IP on the front panel. Please set your client PC to DHCP and connect eth0 to the LAN. Release and Renew your old DHCP on the client (if needed). The RaqCop IpCop install defaults the IP to 192.168.5.17. Open a ssh terminal and ssh into 192.168.5.17 port 222 (IPCop default ssh port) and run "setup". Enjoy! Also, the RaqCop https admin port is on 445, same as IPCop default.

This Page Last Modified: Friday, 07-Dec-2007 10:50:22 MST

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