Last update:
01/15/2014
Current version:
1.8.1
Latest beta snapshot:
1.8.2b576

Installation on a standard PC with the CD-ROM (+ floppy disk) version requires the following steps:

• download the ISO image
• burn the ISO image onto a CD-R (or -RW)
  • FreeBSD (ATAPI recorder): burncd -s max -e data cdrom-xxx.iso fixate
  • Windows: use your favorite burning program (e.g. Nero) to record the ISO image (2048 bytes/sector, Mode-1)
• take a standard 1.44 MB diskette or a USB flash drive (m0n0wall 1.3+ only) and format it (with an MS-DOS/FAT file system!)
  • 1.44 MB floppy disk
    • FreeBSD: fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0 && newfs_msdos -L "m0n0wallcfg" -f 1440 /dev/fd0
      Note: you can omit the fdformat step if the floppy disk is already (low-level) formatted
    • Windows: format A:
  • USB flash drive
    • Windows: use Windows Explorer to format the drive (FAT32)
• power up your PC, enter the BIOS and make sure that booting from CD-ROM is enabled and booting from floppy disk is disabled
• insert CD-ROM and floppy disk (do not write-protect the floppy disk!)
• boot
• wait for the console menu to appear, select 1. (assign network ports)
• assign functions (LAN/WAN/OPT) to your interfaces (hint: use auto-detection, or let the MAC addresses tell you which card is which one)
• change the LAN IP address, or use the default (192.168.1.1; m0n0wall acts as a DHCP server by default)
• access the webGUI (user: 'admin', default password: 'mono')
• make the necessary changes to the default configuration