> I'm currently trying to get m0n0wall running on a PC in Democratic
> Republic of Congo.  In order to prove that m0n0 will work in our offices
> here I want to be able to boot from CD and leave the hard drive alone.
> The problem I am having is there don't seem to be any working floppy
> drives here (I've been through three so far).  I can't save the config,
> and thus can't use m0n0wall.
>
> I've tried saving the config to USB flash drive, but it just doesn't
> seem to work - the USB flash drive is formatted as FAT32, with nothing
> else on it.  When I plug it in and out, m0n0 reports it, but doesn't try
> to save to it when I change config, and doesn't try to read it when I
> boot m0n0.
>
> I was going to try and write the whole of the generic-pc image to the
> USB flash drive using physdiskwrite and boot from that, however I have
> no way of knowing which disk physdiskwrite will try and write to (I
> don't want to wipe my hard drive 6000 miles from home)  Contrary to what
> is shown on the documentation for physdiskwrite, when I run it from
> Windows all I see is the following:
>
> ******
> C:\>physdiskwrite.exe
>
> physdiskwrite v0.5.1 by Manuel Kasper <mk at neon1 dot net>
>
> Usage: physdiskwrite [-u] <image-file>
>
>           -u    remove 2 GB restriction (WARNING!)
>
> C:\>
> ******
>
> Any advice on getting m0n0 to save to the USB drive or use physdisk.


Can you drop the CD/Floppy config and just use the USB drive?  Just use 
physdiskwrite to put the m0n0 image on the USB drive and boot to that - 
assuming the bios has support for booting to a USB device.


Aaron