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The instructions you have would be great. I could try out the other method linked, but that involves setting up an FTP server on the network and such and I'd rather find a method where I can walk up to a machine with a cd/floppy and get up and running. Rick On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 22:48 -0400, ryanag at zoominternet dot net wrote: > I used g4u liveCD http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ with no problem. > > Worked surprisingly well for me. Let me know if you want detailed > instructions. > > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 21:47 -0400, Raylund Lai wrote: > > Sure, the concept is totally right. Actually I'm doing it like that. But > > the details are different story. > > > > Such as what bootable floppy should be using? If dos is used, what dos > > disk imaging software could read the m0n0 image and make the disk? > > > > I'm using tomsrtbt bootable floppy. Use mknod to create the cdrom device > > and mount it. Then do the imaging to harddisk. > > > > Cheers > > Raylund > > > > Don Munyak wrote: > > > > >I'm not a linux guy, so I shooting from the hip. > > > > > >Chris Buechler has a Live installer for v 1.1 > > >http://chrisbuechler.com/index.php?id=17 > > > > > >couldn't you boot from a floppy with cd-rom support and then burn the > > >image to the harddrive..or am I "thinking" over simplistic. > > > > > >- Don > > > > > >On Apr 5, 2005 6:28 PM, Richard Harding <rick at ricksweb dot info> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Richard Harding wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>>I am trying to install on an old PC. I was attempting to use the DSL > > >>>install approach. I have DSL working, downloaded the 1.11 generic > > >>>image. I then used the gunzip fed to dd. There were no errors and > > >>>running fdisk -l showed a FreeBSD paritition on /dev/hda4. > > >>> > > >>>Upon reboot I just get a "read error". I have tried downloading from > > >>>several sources and downloaded using both web browsers and wget from > > >>>command line. Does anyone have any idea what I am missing here? Is > > >>>there another step that needs to be made to get it to boot properly? > > >>>Why does dd create a /dev/hda4? > > >>> > > >>>Thanks for any help. > > >>> > > >>>Rick > > >>> > > >>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > >>>For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>Ok, I got it to work by using this link: > > >>http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/?action=show_msg&actionargs[]=117&actionargs[]=23 > > >> > > >>If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it as the system can > > >>not recover from a power outage in this way. > > >> > > >>My other question is if there is a way to support no-ip.com dynamic DNS. > > >>I don't see it as an option and of course I just went and purchased a > > >>domain there with them and one year's service. :-) > > >> > > >>Thanks for the help. > > >> > > >>Rick |