Setting Up A Smoothwall server

[r1zeek]

Now i have an old machine sitting about, and as we are about to get ADSL, with all the talk about smoothwall, i thought it'd be a use for it. I've heard that you need Linux to run it and i'm not any Linux expert (never even used it, would like to though) could anyway point me to any guides or give me any recommendations. I'm not up for spending much money but I will if i have to.
The machine is an old Intel PIII 900Mhz. 128mbs ram, 20 gig hard drive, windows ME installed but i can easily format.
Cheers

[joshwa]

www.smoothwall.org

smoothwall is the OS - it's Linux but it's simply a firewall / router without the windows bit. it's free, you just download it, burn it to cd and then install it on your machine.

that machine sounds PLENTY fast enough for it.

I'm running smoothwall on a p2-350, 128mb, 2gb hd machine.

[r1zeek]

cheers for that mate. So i would download the image from the site (already looked around their) then burn to a disk, then just stick the disc in my machine and it will boot of that. Does it have to format my disk first or can you do it inside the smoothwall setup?

[ice]

The Smoothwall setup will partition and format the drive.

[r1zeek]

Thanks very much guys. Saved me about £100 I think. The fools at PC world advised my dad to get a firewall and a router but I was inistent we didnt need all that. I still need a router though don't i? or isnt that nessesary with smoothwall

[joshwa]

smoothwall is the router
i use it with my broadband, and have 2 NICs in the machine running smoothwall eg:

[r1zeek]

Cheers, You might here from me again come november, stupid BT won't enable our exchange for ADSL until 24th of November. They always find a way to screw us!
When 24th comes i'll be setting everything up so you might hear from me again if i have probs.
Thanks again guys, most appreciated