[Preston] IPCop

[Phil Edwards]

John

You can't just copy the image to CD but with Easy CD creator 5 the process
of recording the image to disk is easy though not immediately obvious.

First open a new data CD project, but rather than simply drag and drop your
iso file you need to use the menu options:

File
Record CD from CD image

This will recreate the original CD, which will be bootable.

Phil


----- Original Message -----
From: "John" <john.rushe@btinternet.com>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:45 PM
Subject: [Preston] IPCop


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 downloaded
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/files
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 from
the CD using the CYRIX box, nothing happened. I then decided to try booting
from RedHat 7.1 installation CD which worked and installed successfully on
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 netgear
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 that
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 have
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 ME,
Windows 98 and a Redhat 7.3 box. Do I need to set up an HTTP or FTP server
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 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
> >
> >
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> >
>


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