when i try to install the official mySQL .pkg from the Cobalt site 'http://pkg.nl.cobalt.com/i386/RaQ3-RaQ4-MySQL-3.22.32-1.pkg' from the GUI all i get is an hourglass that stays there for about 2 hours then goes away. the installation never occures however. anyone have any ideas?

when I install anything 'official', I'll do always a SSH-Session and download the pkg's via wget into /home/packages. Afterwards you can install it from the CP.

cd /home/packages
wget http://pkg.nl.cobalt.com/i386/RaQ3-RaQ4-MySQL-3.22.32-1.pkg

One of the reasons may be, that I find that site to serve files *extremely* slow. You'd be better off downloading it to your HD then installing it off your HD, or by FTPing it to the server as instructed above.

Just try to load a page there and often it barely serves the images...

can you tell me the steps to do a 'wget'?

1) login to your raq as admin with telnet or ssh
2) cd /home/packages
3) wget http://pkg.nl.cobalt.com/i386/RaQ3-RaQ4-MySQL-3.22.32-1.pkg
4) (file gets downloaded, otherwise error is displayed)
5) exit to logout
6) login to control panel as admin
7) go to maintainance, install software, select dowloaded package from the dropdownbox and klick install

legend:
[kursiv] means type this on telnet prompt