It’s a love / hate thing
Argh. No really – Argh. I’ve had another one of those weekends. Trying to fix a machine I’m setting up as a gateway / firewall for a friend and it’s been driving me nuts. The bios has no battery and as such won’t hold anything other than defaults. The default boot order is harddisk first then cdrom. I was trying to get suse 9 on the damn thing and I tried so many tricks to get the darn thing to fire up the installer. I kept getting kernel panics during the installer boot so I did a whole bunch of other things, swapping the drive between machines, formatting blah blah blah. Eventually I discovered (MORON!) that the little piece of crap didn’t have enough memory to run suse 9 properly, so I’m back to where I began. What I *should* have done was leave the install where it was and just upgrade iptables so the firewall script would work nicely. Incidentally, if you’re looking for a great firewall to run on linux – go to Atomic [atomicmpc.com.au] they have a nice script there that will build a lovely stateful inspection firewall, and handle masquerading and forwarding for broadband or dialup at the same time. Noice.
So. Now I’m doing a nasty text based install hoping it will work. Once it’s on, all I need to do is setup ppp for on demand dialing and bob’s yer wossname… Oh and during all of this I managed to corrupt my machine yet again. Repair disc fixed it but goddamn I need an upgrade… my hardware is going to give up the ghost sometime very soon I think.
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