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If you have knoppix lying round http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/installation_generic.php, or follow the http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/installation_generic_dsl.php damn small linux instructions. Worked like a charm for me :) And then you can even leave your other hard drives unplugged so 0% risk of overwriting the wrong one. Jack Knut Singer wrote: >Hi, > >after trying one very long night to install m0n0wall on a HD without success >- perhaps someone of you can help me. > >I have read the FAQ, the documentation and a lot of links I could find - but the "final" hint is >still missing for me. > >What I have: >- an old PC with 1 GByte HD, a bootable Floppy Drive and a non-bootable CD-ROM Drive. >- Other PCs with Windows ME. > >In my environment with Windows ME physdiskwrite doesn't recognize any >built in HDs. The question, which HD should be overwritten, is shown >with "(0...0)" and no disks are shown. >I tried to format the m0n0wall HD with FAT, with FAT32, to leave it >blank as a partition and to delete all partitions. No success. Even the >windows HD isn't shown.. ;-( > >I had the Windows HD on IDE-controller 1 as master, and the HD for Monowall on >IDE-controller 2 also as master. > >Then I tried to copy the image with rawrite to HD, but rawrite and the >other similiar programs write to floppydisks only ;-( > >Then I had a look to a FreeBSD-Site and tried to install a FreeBSD >Bootmanager from a dos-diskette to the monowall HD, and extracted the >content of the monowall image ( not the image itself ) to the HD. The >boot manager worked fine, but monowall didn't come up ( which did not >surprise me, as I think, a boot loader has to be at the right sectors ). >I tried this with FAT and FAT32 as monowall partition.. >and.. and and.. > >So, to make it short: > >How can I install monowall to HD without physdiskwrite? >Is there a tool to copy the image to HD from a DOS floppy disk with CD-support? >A floppy is available and a CD-Drive, that can be read from but not >booted from. > >Please don't forget to tell me, if in the method of your answer the HD >has to be prepared in any way ( partitions, formatting, deleting all >partitions..) > >Thank you very much! > >Ciao, Knut > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > > > > > |