Comments on: Install IPCop from a USB Drive

By: pbounds

pbounds — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:01:28 +0000

Great FAQ, and straight to the point, worked like a champ! Our company was buying these small supermicro 1U rack boxes with no cdrom, so I always opened up the case hooked up a cdrom cable and installed that way, with the bootable USB, system booted right up, recognized the USB ky drive, and loaded the Ipcop, without a hitch. Only cleanup I did after that was run the updates from my MAC, and also install the OpenVPN plugin software.

Thanks!

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:31:08 +0000

Close explorer altogether, it will work if you don’t have anything showing the files you are using open. (at least for me – same error and closing explorer fixed it)

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:40:17 +0000

Something has your image file locked. Either an explorer process, or something else. Try copying the file and renaming it and using that file.

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:50:20 +0000

I get the following error:
C:\dd>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is FC8A-C2EE

Directory of C:\dd

02/15/2010 11:52 AM .
02/15/2010 11:52 AM ..
12/06/2003 03:50 PM 18,325 Copying.txt
02/26/2007 08:50 PM 342,016 dd.exe
02/26/2007 08:19 PM 4,319 ddchanges.txt
01/22/2010 02:01 AM 54,411,264 ipcop-1.9.11-install-usb-fdd.i486.img
4 File(s) 54,775,924 bytes
2 Dir(s) 11,514,855,424 bytes free

C:\dd>dd if=ipcop-1.9.11-install-usb-fdd.i486.img of=\\.\J: bs=1k

rawwrite dd for windows version 0.5.
Written by John Newbigin
This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details
Error opening output file: 32 The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

By: ben

ben — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:40:18 +0000

thanks a lot for this guide, it worked fine for me.
cheers

By: Hugo

Hugo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:33:21 +0000

I’ve been trying all thiese steps but I got a message that reads “no cdrom found”. I’ll try tomorrow disconecting the FDD and CDROM, I’ll only leave the USB drive,(Dell Dimension c521, only Sata Ports )

I’m want to install ipcop in a new computer that has 4 GB on RAM Because that current one, only has 2 GB, my network is around 250 computers and for any reason the memory and cache got 97 % of use and then web proxy stop and internet goes down
Any other Idea ?

thank you very much
Hugo Perales ( hiperat@yahoo.com.mx )

By: Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:43:52 +0000

Dude, many thanks indeed. I’m goin’ to build a new system w/o a CD-ROM, just an HDD, and the USB Stick.

I would recommend this to a friend, or someone who wants to build a firewall system.

I tried extracting the .gz file that i downloaded from the IE web browser, didn’t work, used FF 3.0.11, and it extracted w/ no problems YAY!

By: Roberto M

Roberto M — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:55:13 +0000

thanks, it was easy to follo, wbut a little problem trying to find the usb-fdd image file but finally it was rewarding

again thanks a lot

By: Sabu

Sabu — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:50:28 +0000

Thanks a loooooooooooooooooooooooot -:) I was looking for it for the same problem. Cheers –