Hello:
I am in the process of building a local network for a school, (doing this
for free as the school is in financial need) using a dialup login for
internet access. All is fine and well but I now want to add a firewall as I
feel that DSL or cable will just be around the corner and want the added
protection. I have an old Digital Prioris P-90 SCSI system from my early ISP
days. Believe it or not 4 and 1/2 years ago we used RH 4.2 on this machine
as our DNS server. Well now I'd like to use it as the firewall for this
school network as it servers no function in my home other than taking up
space. I am running into an error that I can not seem to resolve via the
archives on moongroup.com or redhat.com. The machine fails with the
installer on a simple RH 6.2 load. It errors out with references to unable
to write various anaconda files in their proper directories. I have tried
loading the machine without anaconda and I make it but my NIC card is not
seen nor does the addition of an alias to conf.modules work. In fact if I
add a line to conf.modules for the NIC card it will see it but fails to
communicate with network. I have ruled out the NIC card hardware problem
because I have tried 3 other cards that I know work. I believe the culprit
to be my BIOS system but I recently had this machine up and running Windoze
(98) for my kids and it saw this same NIC card fine with the same BIOS
system. I remember someone on the list having a problem very similar to this
and his only resolution was to replace the NIC card. The difference with his
system was that it happened on a reboot and the errors started to be
reported. The Digital Prioris P-90 does not have a BIOS that shows
interrupts during bootup nor what hardware other than hard drive and CD-ROM
that were detected. I am sending this to the list in hopes that maybe
someone is running this same machine and has found a resolution to this. I
have tried everything I know how but have never had this much difficulty in
getting Linux to run on any system. Seems my easy way out is just to scrap
it and find another cheap 486 with 1 gig drive. Any ideas? If more info is
need please let me know and I will write down the exact errors.
TIA,
Eddie Strohmier
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