XG Firewall Home Edition on SG Hardware

The Sophos XG can be successfully installed on a Sophos UTM 120 rev. 5 (2GB RAM) appliance but it was bit tricky!

The CDROM was found and accepted as boot medium but the appliance was catched in a boot loop. So I was forced to flush the BIOS configuration (via jumper setting on the mainboard) to get it boot from the CDROM. After that trick the installation was possible and successful.

Then I faced the next problem: The appliance was up and via ICMP reachable, but TCP4444 was definitely down. I rebooted the device servel times and later on I just waited about 10 minutes and then TCP4444 became surprisingly reachable.

Now the XG works fine.

The Sophos XG can be successfully installed on a Sophos UTM 120 rev. 5 (2GB RAM) appliance but it was bit tricky!

The CDROM was found and accepted as boot medium but the appliance was catched in a boot loop. So I was forced to flush the BIOS configuration (via jumper setting on the mainboard) to get it boot from the CDROM. After that trick the installation was possible and successful.

Then I faced the next problem: The appliance was up and via ICMP reachable, but TCP4444 was definitely down. I rebooted the device servel times and later on I just waited about 10 minutes and then TCP4444 became surprisingly reachable.

Now the XG works fine.

I've (re)installed Copernicus/XG many times since the first published Beta version (August 2015), on my office UTM 110/120 device.

Advices from my experience:

- There is no need to use external CD/DVD device, burn the ISO image on an USB key.

- Use Win32 Disk Imager software for that task, don't experiment with Rufus and others (suggested from managers/developers during Beta phase on old astaro.org forum).

- UTM120 is very slow, so it is normal to experience latency between ping and accessing web console. Be patient, it can last several minutes. I was also being nervous in first couple times, doing hard reboots...etc...until realized that it is normal for XG initialization on this appliance..;). If you have VGA monitor connected directly you can see that boot procedure (admin prompt) is being finished in less than a minute, but that is misleading. If you login and press any menu button you will be presented with message "Please wait, system is still initializing".

- Ports are reversed, as already mentioned here.

I have installed the software version on the UTM 120 rev. 5 and there was no order to use the hardware version. Maybe because I have deleted all partitions first?

XG installer should wipe all of the partitions anyway (there is a warning to accept before continuing).

p.s Nobody here mentioned Beethoven "Per Elisa" theme from UTM120 internal beeper, after the installation was finished....it scared me the first time...[;)]

Nemo said:

try to boot the ISO from an USB-stick... the speaker will flipp out ^^

I've always used Win32 Disk Imager for this task, as suggested on the forum during Partner pre-release and Beta phases.

One would expect some beep-ing immediately after the powering the device, but not after 30 minutes while sitting alone in an low-light office environment,  with the device starting to beeps Beethoven melody...[;)]