DDNS Mod. Dev. Notes
Some notes about modifying SmoothWall 3 — some items carried over from notes for previous SmoothWall Express editions:
- Text editors: Pico is not installed on SmoothWall, but Joe is in SmoothWall Express 2 and 3. Jpico was installed on some earlier SmoothWall versions.
- You can not (easily) read EXT2 format (i.e. Linux format) floppy disks in Windows. Nor can you easily read DOS/Windows formatted (vfat) floppies in SmoothWall (though, you can in most Linux distributions). It’s a fun catch-22.
- I strongly recommend using only SCP to transfer files and sidestep this particular set of issues. Besides, floppy drives are hard to find now. :)
- If you are using the new, super cool developer edition that is available with SmoothWall 3, that initial compile is very very long. I happened to run it in a VMWare virtual machine in an already undersized box, ancient 500Mhz P3 with 256MB RAM (half alloted to the virtual machine), and it took over 24 hours to compile – in hindsight, it was a bit masochistic.
- Also, regarding compiling: I recommend assigning at least 10 GB of hard drive space to the VM. After compilation, about 5GB is used, peak use is somewhat higher, and the SmoothWall install allocates about 1/3 to a logging partition which is useless for compiling.