[Preston] IPCop

[Steve Taylor]

Hi John

Yes, I've installed IPCOP successfully several times and still run it
(though my own connection is now through a homebrew firewall).

When you say you can't get it to boot from CD or FD, do you mean it does not
boot, or it does boot, but fails at some stage during startup?

What NIC are you using?

I thought most common cards were supported, though I do tend to stick with
cheap Realtek ones wherever possible. If you have a spare PCI slot stick £5
worth of 8139 based card in there.

HTH

Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: preston-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:preston-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of John
Sent: 04 November 2002 18:58
To: preston@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Preston] IPCop


Has anybody managed to install IPCop? I downloaded it in .iso format but
haven't been able to get it to boot from CD or from floppy disk... I tried a
network install but as the driver disk IPCop creates doesn't have a driver
for my network card, I thought I would copy my driver onto the driver floppy
and try again... Sadly, it still did not recognise either my NIC or the
driver so I am feeling a bit miffed!!!! I bought an old IBM/CYRIX to run
IPCop on so having spalshed out £25 for the hardwar I was rather hoping
installing the free software would be a piece of cake!!!

Any suggestions, tips or advice greatly appreciated...

John