Dead Firewall!

[Shawn Badger]

IPCOP is a very basic Linux version and all TUI based for setup. The worst
that you have to run is the setup.sh script that goes through and configures
the NIC's and such.  I wouldn't worry about the video card at all.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

>  Yes, installing first in another system and just moving the drive should
> work - might also want to choose a similar and video card for the base
> install box and consider doing a full source install (including nice kernel
> sources depending on distro) in case the kernel might need something later.
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> > To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > From: ejs at shubes.net
> > Subject: Re: Dead Firewall!
> > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:51:36 -0700
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> >
> > der.hans wrote:
> > > Am 27. Jan, 2009 schwätzte farli so:
> > >
> > >> Geez! Its been so long that I dont even remember how to find out what
> > >> the hard drive is!
> > >
> > > Pentium 200 with no USB, so the drive is almost certainly and IDE
> drive.
> > > It's for a firewall, so pretty well any old IDE drive at this point
> will
> > > be large enough to hold the necessary OS.
> > >
> > > ciao,
> > >
> > > der.hans
> > >
> >
> > Sounds like we might want to do as Shawn suggested then. I'll have a
> > spare PC we can connect/mount the IDE drive in, then install from CD,
> > then move the IDE drive back to its home and run setup. I'm assuming we
> > can remove/reinstall the HDD in whatever boxen this is.
> >
> > --
> > -Eric 'shubes'
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