I have been seeing different articles about turning an old computer into a firewall/router, so I wanted to try it out (more for the learning experience rather than a practical need). I found an old computer (P3 933mHz, 384mb SD ram, 4gb seagate hard drive) and put in two old network cards I had lying around. I have tried installing SmoothWall, pfSense, and IPcop, and I cannot get any of them to install. SmoothWall stops a few seconds after clicking install on a line that says something like apm: BIOS version..... (not at the screen right now). IPcop stops right after clicking install saying "crc error". pfSense gives a few errors during install and then fails to boot, saying it cannot find the kernel.
I do not have much experience with Linux or *nix OS's at all and I am not too good at these types of things (which is why I am doing projects like this - to learn more). Any help would be greatly appreciated as to what I am doing wrong and what to do next.
Thanks.
I do not have much experience with Linux or *nix OS's at all and I am not too good at these types of things (which is why I am doing projects like this - to learn more). Any help would be greatly appreciated as to what I am doing wrong and what to do next.
Thanks.