Just wanted to send out a note to the list that I was able to get my NIC 
issues resolved.  I went in to the BIOS and did the 'reset config data' 
and then booted m0n0 with a CD and everything worked great!  I'll be 
setting up a HDD install soon, but I wanted to try the CD install in 
case it would not work and I needed to go back to IPCop.

I set up some initial shaping rules with the wizard and all seems well 
so far.  I need to do some reading on shaping and on setting up my DMZ, 
but so far m0n0 seems very good.

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!

Regards,
Brian

Brian wrote:

>
>
> Jim Gifford wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:47:31 -0400, Brian <belstsrv at nauticom dot net> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> *snip*
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>>> Do you know what the best / easiest way is to load m0n0 on my IDE 
>>>>> drive
>>>>> of this PC?  I'd rather not take it out, if I can avoid it, since 
>>>>> then I
>>>>> need to open up this PC and another, but I will if that is the 
>>>>> best way
>>>>> to do it.  I tried the DamnSmallLinux method, but for some reason I
>>>>> tried to cfdisk the drive and then format it, but I can never get 
>>>>> that
>>>>> to work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again for all your help and suggestions.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> No need to use cfdisk or attempt to format the drive.  Just fetch the
>>>> image, gunzip it, and dd it straight to the drive.  Just like the
>>>> directions say.  :)
>>>>
>>>> This has worked fine for me several times without fail.
>>>>
>>>> good luck,
>>>> jim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I did try that a few times, but never had success.  When you use
>>> Smoothwall or IPCop, it breaks up the HDD in to 3 parts:
>>>
>>> hda1 = boot
>>> hda2 = /
>>> hda3 = logs
>>>
>>> When I tried to put m0n0 on to there, it was telling me it did not have
>>> enough space.  I *think* what I needed to do was to start out with the
>>> HDD set as one large partition and then use the gunzip menthod.  Does
>>> having something like IPCop on there before that uses LILO do anything?
>>> Perhaps I am overthinking this, but when I was able to get the gunzip
>>> method to work, the PC booted and then just sat there with the HDD
>>> clicking and putting '99' across the screen over and over....
>>>
>>> What was your drive like prior to the install?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brian
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Stop thinking of partitions.  Throw them out the window.  Instead, use
>> the whole disk device (in your case, /dev/hda is the whole disk). 
>> When you dd the data to /dev/hda, it will destroy the partition table
>> completely.  You will have a bootable m0n0wall, and nothing extra.
>>
>> hope this helps,
>> jim
>>
>>  
>>
> Aha!  I see.  I was using /hda1 and so on, when I really just needed 
> to use the device name itself.  I'll give that a try and see how that 
> goes.  If I can at least get m0n0 loading, I can work on the NIC issues.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brian
>
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