Smooth Wall Problems

[cbakey]

This is my first time rying to install and use linux. I tried to install Smoothwall and i read the guide on it from smoothwall.org and fallowed that through and it went good untill i had to reboot than it reboots and starts to boot from the HD and the screen just shows L 01 01 and it keeps putting 01's on the screen slowly. This is on a nother computer that i had sitting around. Any Help would be a HUGE help.
Thanks
Chirs

 

[DarkArctic]

That's the boot loader not being configured properly. I think that if you get a Windows 98 disk and do a

fdisk /mbr

and then reinstall Smoothwall that should allow it to boot. Although I remember one time I had to write zeroes to the hard drive in order to get it to work. I think the fdisk will work for you though.

-DarkArctic

 

[cbakey]

I tryed to instal windows 2k on the same computer and it worked falwalessly so i than installed smooth wall again and it gave me that same crap, im going to try to total erease the drive. Thnaks for the help.

 

[cbakey]

OK, now i can get smooth wall to run and i can log into the root account, now what do i do from there if i want to set it up so my computer runs throught one NIC on that computer throught linux than out the other nic to the rest of my network and internet?

 

[DarkArctic]

In order to configure Smoothwall for use as a router you need to access the web interface. From what I can see in the documentation you can access it from two URLs.

https://smoothwallip:443
http://smoothwallip:81

Smoothwallip is to be replaced with the IP that you configured on install. Default is 192.168.0.1. From there you can set firewalling rules and other things.

-DarkArctic