XG Firewall Home Edition on SG Hardware

Hi

Ive been following this thread, and the feature request, but it dosn't seem clear as to where this is at

I have a Sophos SG125 appliance that came with UTM 9 installed and an expired license that i am wanting ever so badly to run the XG Home on.

I removed the SSD in the UTM and put in a fresh new SSD and an additional 2gb memory and tried the following

1) Installed SFOS Hardware version, installs without a drama, but i was not able to apply my home license, in my instance there was already a serial applied, and the only option i had was to migrate that serial to XG (which must be the expired utm9 serial), or do a 30 day trial.

What gets me though is how, when i removed the original HDD did it know about that serial?

2) Then tried to install SFOS software version on a fresh ssd, upon booting of the ISO i immediately get "Detected Sophos Physical Device. Please get proper installation source."

So with that in mind i gather

1) You cannot install the software ISO (which is strange given that i put in a new SSD and it is effectively intel hardware anyway)

2) You can install the Hardware ISO, but not apply the XG Home license.

Anyone who has had success with this 

Strange, I've done this numerous times on appliances.  

Trick has always been to blow out the partitions first, then run the software installer.  So for instance I will boot up gparted, blow out the partitions by creating a new volume, then boot up the software installer and off it goes.

So would I be correct in assuming that with my XG85 I can take the ssd out, wipe it and replace, then install the software version of the Home edition whilst monitoring the process over the console cable?
The XG85 doesn't have a VGA port and that is where I've been stuck. I'm concerned about bricking the unit with no way to access it.

Cheers,

Jacob

I know, i tried it on a fresh SSD - i got the software one to install, when i enter my serial it registers but cannot sync license

this is a real shame, i chose to buy an SG for home to run xg home on

This is great news!

How would i go about blowing out the partitions? I have an xg85w.

I've tried booting the gparted live usb and writing a new mbr, but when i boot the SW_SFOS installer it still complains about it cannot be installed on an appliance. These are the devices I have (the memory seems to be soldered onto the board (mmcblk), not a removable SSD).

The mmcblk0 (memory card block device) I can reset the mbr, but the boot0, boot1 and rpmb i cannot touch.

I saw that there was a possibility of removing /etc/asg and the SW_SFOS would then accept it as a non-appliance install. How would I go about getting r/w permission in the file system on the 85?

Has anyone succeeded in getting Sophos Home to run on an xg85?

CarlBagge,

I've never tried on anything smaller than a 105.  Here is what I do:

1.  Boot to gParted Live USB.

2.  Delete existing partitions and create new ext3/4 partition.

3.  Apply disk configuration.

4.  Boot to Sophos SFOS software installer and install.

I don't have an 85 to test with so unfortunately can't walk through it.

Thanks for your quick reply.

As far as deleting existing partitions this is as far as I've come with gParted:

The xg85 seems to have a flash memory for the system divided into mmcblk0, mmcblk0boot0, mmcblk0boot1 and mmcblk0rpmb. Normally i'd say boot0, boot1 and rpmb are partitions on mmcblk0. But I cannot edit/remove them, as you can see in the screenshot above. I can wipe/partition /dev/mmcblk0 but doing that still results in "Detected Sophos Physical Device".

Subscribing!  I'm looking to achieve the same thing - xg85 appliance with xg home license.  XG85w would be even better but that may be tougher...

Subscribing!  I'm looking to achieve the same thing - xg85 appliance with xg home license.  XG85w would be even better but that may be tougher...