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Installing from a CD-ROM
- Download the ISO image
- Burn the ISO image onto a CD-R (or -RW) NOTE: Burning at half
speed often results in a better disk.
- Windows: Use a CD burning program to record the ISO image. InfraRecorder or Image Burn are good free options.
- FreeBSD (ATAPI recorder): burncd -s max -e data cdrom-xxx.iso fixate
- If you wish to run from CD only, (no hard drive) you will need a standard 1.44 MB diskette or a USB flash drive formated with an MS-DOS/FAT file system. (To store the config file)
- Power up your PC, enter the BIOS and make sure that booting from CD-ROM is enabled and booting from floppy disk or hard drive is disabled
- Insert CD-ROM (and floppy disk or USB if you are not installing to a hard drive, USB stick, or DOM)
- Boot, and wait for the console menu to appear.
- If you are installing to a hard drive, CF card, DOM or USB drive, make sure it is inserted, and select "7) Install on Hard Drive" and once complete, remove the CD and reboot.
- Select "1) Interfaces: assign network ports"
- Assign functions (LAN/WAN/OPT) to your interfaces Hint: Use auto-detection, or let the MAC addresses tell you which card is which)
- Change the LAN IP address, or use the default 192.168.1.1 SmallWall acts as a DHCP server by default)
- Access the webGUI (user: 'admin', default password: 'small')
- Make the necessary changes to the default configuration
Installation on a standard PC with the CD-ROM (or floppy disk / USB) version requires the following steps:
When it works, installing from a CD-ROM is the easiest way to install SmallWall. However, sometimes the new BIOS options, coupled with the "pretend hard drive" that is the CD-ROM, and the other "pretend hard drive" that is your installation media, can confuse the boot process. If this is the case, consider one of the other install methods.