Quoting Brendan Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>
> >Brendan.
> >
> >you say you have a cd drive in this machine. Can you boot offf it? If
> so
> >boot the ipcop cd and install that way, no need for floppies.
> >
> >
> >
> No boot from CD in BIOS only A or C
>
> >alternatively, you could try making your boot floppies on a linux box.
> I
> >am not sure whats going wrong with rawrite, but I confess to not using
> >rawrite for many moons.
> >
> >
> I dont have a linux box at the moment and I was going to try and
> repartion and install linux(mandrake, lycoris) and reinstall win 98 on
> another box on saturday but I spent all my time trying to make ipcop
> boot disks. Then again I would not know how to make one with linux.
>
> >why is it you need to wait for a floppy drive to replace the allegedly
> >broken one? they are a dime a dozen in computer stores.
> >
> >
>
> Brought one online at Assent. It was easier for me to get one delivered
>
> than to leave work during business hours to get one.
>
> >on the other hand, if the floppy is some proprietary job, then that
> >could be the problem...
> >
> >
> >
> Nope standard floppy drive
>
> >if your computer wil boot off the network, that may be possible to do.
> >look at the boot messages for any such indicatin (eg my compaq ipcop
> box
> >says
> >
> >
> Im not sure about this how do I find out? If you mean looking in the
> BIOS it says A or C or to quote it the two options are "A, C" or "C, A"
>
> >BUT most of all we can explore this on saturday :-) ask for me or
> chris
> >sawtell, we are the self appointed ipcop team ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> I would appreciate that. Thanks
>
> Just for note to quote Chris
>
> >My machine
> >> Cyrix 586 (about the same as 486DX4 or Pentium 75)
> >> 48Mb RAM
> >> 407Mb Hard drive
> >> Network card with a Realtek 8139 chip
> >> an ISA 33k modem
> >
> >
> >That's a bit miserable.
> >You might be able to get a faster one from the
> >Computer Broker 6 Washington Way
> >
> >
> Im not looking for a fast router, I am just looking for a more stable
> alternative than win98 and FreeProxy/FreeWeb.
IPCop will without doubt give you an effective firewall and web proxy.
If you have had 3 floppy disk drive apparently fail, I suspect that either you
are not plugging them in correctly, or the floppy disk ribbon cable is broken.
There is also a very remote possibility that the power supply feeding the
floppy is faulty. I will bring a voltmeter and spare floppy cable on Saturday.
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell.
