Chapter 3. Setup

Table of Contents

3.1. Getting the Software
3.2. Installing the Software
3.2.1. Preparing a bootable CD
3.2.2. Preparing a CompactFlash or IDE Hard Disk
3.2.3. Alternative means of installation
3.3. Booting SmallWall

This chapter acts as a quick reference for those who are familiar with installing and configuring SmallWall. If you need more than a quick reference on what commands to use to write a CD, CF, HD, etc. please see the Quick Start Guide appropriate to your platform.

Quick Start Guides On the SmallWall website.

3.1. Getting the Software

There are ready-made binary images for the serial based appliances, a CF/IDE HD image for most standard PCs (embedded ones may work, too), and CD-ROM (ISO) image for standard PCs as well as a tarball of the root filesystem.

To download the software for your platform, point your web browser at www.SmallWall.org/download.html and select the appropriate download link from that page. Download the file to your working machine from which you will be writing to either a CD-R or a CompactFlash as described in the next section.