XG V18 MR3

hah - the download portal pushes out SW-17.5.14_MR-14-1-714    way to go Sophos way to be utter rubbish

Please read the release notes. MR3 is being released to MySophos first and then slow-rolled to the Up2Date servers and will then appear in the Webconsole. You have the choice of downloading and upgrading to MR3 from MySophos, or you can wait until it is released to you via the Up2Date process.

• https://community.sophos.com/xg-firewall/b/blog/posts/xg-firewall-v18-mr3 

look in the sky the point is flying over your head mate - at the very least v18 should be the one the download points to.  The whole point of the new ISO is I am try to see if they fixed the UEFI install mess.   I imagine they didn't which would be par for the course and the workaround is install 17 and upgrade or install 18 and hack the EFI boot file with a 2 year old copy of Ubuntu.

The first phase is a Soft Release - As usual. You can download the .sig files. Those files are possible to upgrade. Without ISO. ISO´s are only for reimages / New installations. 

Soft releases are quite usual to do. in fact Sophos did this in the past years.

As I said, the release notes give you the links to the installers. It wasn't clear that you weren't upgrading, hence my MySophos reference.

sure would be nice if those were hyperlinks.  I spent the past hour tying to find.  I was pretty clear in the 4 posts I made that I need to be able to install correctly on intel hardware here I am trying to make Sophos money by having clients buy you product.  

Guess I'll give Sonic Wall my business I can't imagine the average user ever sorting out the Sophos issues and since time is money I have to look elsewhere.

sure would be nice if those were hyperlinks.  I spent the past hour tying to find.  I was pretty clear in the 4 posts I made that I need to be able to install correctly on intel hardware here I am trying to make Sophos money by having clients buy you product.  

Guess I'll give Sonic Wall my business I can't imagine the average user ever sorting out the Sophos issues and since time is money I have to look elsewhere.

Is Sonicwall allowing installs on your own hardware now?  I'm seriously asking (we dropped them many years ago in favor of Sophos for numerous reasons).

No, but generally you can get a new appliance with 3 years support and updates for the cost of Sophos license and "commodity =: hardware.   And that support covers the hardware where if your NUC/1U server craps out with Sophos you have to replace that. Its not ideal but it works for a small medium company.