[edlug] Re: Which firewall?

[Andrew Beames <edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

On Friday 30 Apr 2004 17:47, Catriona & Anand wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2004 16:33, Angus Rae wrote:
> > Catriona & Anand wrote:
> > > I am trying to get an old Dell Dimension 466i 8MB RAM 502MB hd set up
> > > as a firewall. It won't boot from CD which is not a problem, but
> > > neither the IPCop floppy boot nor Tom's root & boot can find the CD
> > > drive. Under MSDOS the driver appears to be sb2cd.sys but google will
> > > not admit knowledge of a linux driver.
> > That sounds worryingly like it might be a CD-ROM connected via a
> > SoundBlaster card, rather than IDE. At a guess!
> > There's possibly other ways of doing the install;
> > 1) If the boot disk supports networking you might be able to access the
> > CD-ROM on another machine via SMB, NFS or HTTP
> > 2) You could install the hard drive into another machine and install
> > IPCop there, then move the HD back into the firewall machine (I've done
> > this a few times with Mandrake's old SNF)
> > 3) You could try another CD-ROM connected via IDE
> Thanks. I think you are right. In any case there is clearly no CDROM on the
> IDE bus. I shall look for sbpcd.o as well as possibly borrowing a proper
> CDROM drive. My fall back option is:
>   a) Open case
>   b) Disconnect all cards from motherboard
>   c) Remove motherboard
>   d) Jump up and down repeatedly on each component individually until I
> feel better.

There is an alternative: copy the iso image and all the updates onto a locally 
networked machine running a webserver. Use the floppy disk to boot IPCOP and 
choose the HTTP option to install. I used this method because IPCOP kept 
choking on my CD-ROM even though Smoothwall had installed successfully from 
it.

Andrew
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