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| Thread ID: 45556 | 2004-05-26 00:52:00 | Smooth Wall Install | dwnz2003 (5250) | Press F1 |
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| 239310 | 2004-05-26 00:52:00 | I have a firewall called smooth wall and it runs on a single machine. visit www.smoothwall.org for more. and here my problem I have a Digital Pentium 133 computer using a 2gb Scsi drive and an IDE Cdrom. Since i can't boot off my cdrom im using the floppys. it loads that yellow text bit and i press enter and it says loading then it stops.b i have tried it on my pentium 3 500mhz and it got past that bit fine. I have changed the floppy drive in the computer i'm trying to install it on and still no luck. What is the problem? Thanks Danil |
dwnz2003 (5250) | ||
| 239311 | 2004-05-26 01:02:00 | check the boot order in the bios screens at the system startup........to get there usually it's hit the 'del' key right at the startup | drcspy (146) | ||
| 239312 | 2004-05-26 01:04:00 | it boots off the floppy its just when i start the setup | dwnz2003 (5250) | ||
| 239313 | 2004-05-26 02:09:00 | yeh but to get it to boot from the cdrom | drcspy (146) | ||
| 239314 | 2004-05-26 04:53:00 | my computer doesn't have a Bootable CD-ROM drive and i have just found out that it doesn't run with a scsi drive. Don't most older servers use scsi? the computers its designed for | dwnz2003 (5250) | ||
| 239315 | 2004-05-26 05:08:00 | I dont getcha if it's an IDE cdrom then it should be bootable ? | drcspy (146) | ||
| 239316 | 2004-05-26 05:18:00 | due to the computers age it can't it was built in about 1993 or 1994. | dwnz2003 (5250) | ||
| 239317 | 2004-05-26 05:19:00 | Older PCs can't boot to the CDROM by itself, whether it's IDE, SCSI or whatever. I have a feeling that since your PC doesn't natively load with SCSI, that could stop the installation from "seeing" the hard drive there, or it's having a hard time trying to find it. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 239318 | 2004-05-26 05:39:00 | Try another floppy. The programme which writes the bootable image assumes a perfect floppy. If you are making the boot floppy in Windows do a "Thorough" format, then a scandisk before using RAWRITE. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 239319 | 2004-05-26 22:34:00 | Best place to ask is not here at pressf1.. Smoothwall gurus such as myself dont sit here waiting for smoothwall questions. Try here instead: community.smoothwall.org You might find the community there are bit more specialised ;) |
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