Installation

I cannot write the net45xx-1.235.img onto a CF card on Windows XP Platform even using  physdiskwrite 0.5.1.

Also which cable do I use to connect to a Soekris net4521 to configure monowall after writing onto the CF Card. I have tried following all the steps but to no avail.

How do I know that I have succesfully write the image onto the CF Card?


Even followed the video guide on You-Tude on how to install and configure monowall.

You need a DB9 null modem serial cable (female/female) to connect between the board and your computer (or if your computer doesn't have a serial port you need a null modem to usb adapter, like the guy uses in the video).  Then you use something like puTTY to connect:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Then you can just boot up the soekris and see if it boots properly to confirm that the image got written to the CF card correctly.  I'm also having problems with physdiskwrite, I'm using Vista 64 though, I'm gonna do an install of freebsd and try to burn the image through that and see if it works.

Hopefully everything I said is correct, though it's my first time trying this so I'm not 100% sure...