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Different Linux distro on ASG425 hardware

Hello!

A friend of mine has a ASG425 lying around that he was keen to sell me, and since I was looking for an x86 network platform to run open source network software on, I thought this could be perfect.

So, I don't need to use the ASG operating system, as I'm not interested in building a security gateway specifically.
Is is actually possible to install a generic Linux distribution like say Ubuntu or CentOS, or Fedora on a ASG hardware? I don't need the display to work or other specific hardware features, just to be able to use the NICs and maybe run Quagga on it and so on.

I thought that since it's basically an x86 server with hard drives, you could do it..?
Or are there any limitations on this?

I hope this can be useful for someone else as well!

Cheers!

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0 Scott_Klassen over 9 years ago

It's just hardware, like any other. Nothing special or spectacular about it, so you shouldn't have issue with installing a linux distro on it.

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0 masterbound over 9 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

It's just hardware, like any other. Nothing special or spectacular about it, so you shouldn't have issue with installing a linux distro on it.

Thanks!
That's what I was thinking, my only concern was whether there was something preventing you to do it. :-)

Btw, I think I read in a post that someone actually installed Windows in one of the other models.
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0 Scott_Klassen over 9 years ago

I think I read in a post that someone actually installed Windows in one of the other models.
I'm got VMWare ESXi bare-metal installed on an appliance.

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0 masterbound over 9 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

That's very interesting! Thank you!

What I'll actually be looking to do is to manage the device via OpenStack and turn it into a bare-metal/whitebox switch by installing ONIE and ONL on it, for running various open network stacks and software on it (e.g. Quagga, Indigo, OpenvSwitch)
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