[Preston] IPCop

[John]

Steve,

Thanks for replying......

 My Setup is as follows:

 IBM Cyrix PR166 with 28MB RAM
34.1GB Hard drive
Netgear 32 Bit PCI 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet FA311

 First of all, I had problems creating the actual IPCOP CDROM. I download=
ed
the 26MB .ISO file from Sourceforge but being fairly new to all this, I
simply copied it to a CDROM drive using EASY CD CREATOR 5. It didn't boot
(of course) so then I downloaded ISOBuster to extract the directories/fil=
es
in the ISO image and then copy them to a CDR using Easy CD Creator. I
specified "Make this a boot CDROM" when burning. When I tried to boot fro=
m
the CD using the CYRIX box, nothing happened. I then decided to try booti=
ng
from RedHat 7.1 installation CD which worked and installed successfully o=
n
the IBM/CYRIX machine.

Next, I copied the boot image off the IPCop .ISO download to a floppy and
was able to boot from that on the IBM/Cyrix. I tried to get it to install
from CDROM but the CDROM spins but nothing happens. If I eject the CDROM,=
 I
am prompted to insert the IPCOP CDROM!!!

Next I tried to boot from the floppy disk again (having also created the
driver diskette). There are no drivers on the driver diskette for my netg=
ear
NIC so I copied the FA311.o file to the driver diskette and tried again.
However, it didn't appear in the list of available drivers. This means th=
at
I never get to the stage of doing a network install as my NIC is never
recognised. I seem to be in a catch 22 as I can't do a CDROM install nor =
can
I do a network install (which admittedly I have never done before and hav=
e
no experience of).

I think I have a few fundamental misconceptions / misunderstandings about
both burning CD's and performing network installs....

The .iso file that I downloaded from sourceforge, am I right in assuming
that there is more to it than just copying it out to a CD? (the IPCop
documentation is not very clear on burning it out to a CD). If so, what
exactly should appear on the CD after it has been burned if say I were
browsing it using explorer on windows or if I did an "ls -l" on Linux?
Should I see directories such as bin, lib etc or should I see
IPCop-0.1.1.iso for example?

In order to get thr driver for my NIC onto the driver floppy and have the
IPCop install recognise this new driver, what do I have to do?

Once (If?) I finally get IPCop install to recognise my NIC and apply the
appropriate driver, what do I need to do with the .iso file that I
originally downloaded? I have several other machines on my lan: Windows M=
E,
Windows 98 and a Redhat 7.3 box. Do I need to set up an HTTP or FTP serve=
r
on one or other boxes in order to "serve" the ".iso" file? Maybe the .iso
file should be extracted first using ISObuster or winimage perhaps? I do
have samba installed on the RH 7.3 box and have a shared partition on the
windows ME box of 1.2GB does that help me in any way?

Would really appreciate any help you can give .....

Thanks

John
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Taylor" <steve@ramsbottom.net>
> To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:53 PM
> Subject: RE: [Preston] IPCop
>
>
> >
> > 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 d=
oes
> 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 st=
ick
> =A35
> > 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 t=
he
> > driver so I am feeling a bit miffed!!!! I bought an old IBM/CYRIX to =
run
> > IPCop on so having spalshed out =A325 for the hardwar I was rather ho=
ping
> > installing the free software would be a piece of cake!!!
> >
> > Any suggestions, tips or advice greatly appreciated...
> >
> > John
> >
> >
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