1. First Steps
2. Hints / Caveats
3. Questions

First Steps

Getting the CryptoBox started doesn't take much:

1. You need an old Computer (at least 100MHz, 48MB RAM) (rule of thumb: bought at least after 1996). This PC needs a network card, a CD-ROM drive and a huge harddisk.

   • Well the disk doesn't need to be huge, it should just suit your filestorage needs

   • You don't need a monitor or a keyboard to use your CryptoBox (with one exception, see below).

   • Of course, you may use a faster computer, but they usually consume much more energy and do not provide signifcant advantages.

2. Then download the latest version of the CryptoBox as an iso-image and burn this image onto a CD.

   • http://codecoop.org/projects/cryptobox/

3. Configure your PC, so it can boot from the CD. Therefore you have to enter the BIOS and configure the CD-ROM as boot device.

4. Insert the shiny new CryptoBox CD you've just burned and start the computer.

If it now boots from the CD, you accomplished all of the requirements.

Now you can just go to your current desktop computer and point your browser to https://192.168.0.23 where the CryptoBox interface should be displayed. Easy - isn't it?

For further steps go to CryptoBoxUserConfiguration/en.

Hints / Caveats

• Maybe you need to change the network address (IP) of your PC to configure the CryptoBox for the first time. Ask someone for help, if you don't know how and why ...

• If you're going to buy a new harddisk keep in mind that very old hardware can't handle actual disksizes!

• Some old PCs are not able to boot from CD.

• If you don't know what a BIOS is, better ask someone, before you try to change something.

• Don't forget to connect your PC to your local area network!

• To configure the BIOS, you need a keyboard and a monitor. But this has to be done only once.

back to CryptoBoxUser/en

Questions

last edited 2005-09-21 21:39:59 by lars