I think you would be better of with the CD/Floppy solution than a hard drive 
as sooner than later the HD will die on you.  If you are looking for the 
ability to remotely upgrade, go with a compact flash memory module and a 
Mach5Products.com IDE to compact flash adapter.  The adapter is only $19 US 
and you can buy the compact flash memory module for under $20 US.  Also, I 
use a compact flash to USB adapter and Windows to install the image.

Roy...

>From: Brian <belstsrv at nauticom dot net>
>To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
>Subject: [m0n0wall] Troubles writing m0n0 to HDD
>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:39:59 -0400
>
>Hi everyone.  I've been able to successfully get m0n0 working with the 
>CD/floppy method, although I do not want to leave that in place long term.  
>I want to go ahead and write the image to the HDD of the PC.  I tried the 
>DamnSmallLinux method of installing and took the guidance of a mailing list 
>member who said to write the image to 'hda' and not hda1 or hda2 (because 
>the drive was previously partitioned by IPCop).
>
>When I did the gunzip, I got a message saying 'x records written in' and 'x 
>records written out' or something close to that.  From there I rebooted, 
>but when the machine reads the HDD, it just puts up a bunch of colored 
>ASCII control characters on the screen and does not boot.  I tried BIOS 
>settings for OS = win95, Win98/2000, and Other and none of those helped.  I 
>also tried LBA mode of DOS and Other and neither of them made a difference 
>either.  Did maybe the image just write incorrectly?
>
>What is the easiest way to install m0n0 on a HDD?  Pull it and put it in 
>another PC?  Use DamnSmallLinux and put the .img on a CD and load it from 
>that CD on to the RAM Disk and gunzip from there?  If I end up in a trial 
>and error mode here I want to try to make my loading of this as painless as 
>possible :)
>
>Thanks,
>Brian
>
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