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dumbhead123
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Need to change Factory Default image from 80.30 to R80.40

Hi Folks,

Got my appliance RMA'd and shipped with default image R80.30.

We perform a clean install to R80.40.

While performing a factory reset we only get the option to go back to R80.20 and have to go through the clean install process again.

Looking for a way to reset to R80.40. (If possible)

 

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Bob_Zimmerman
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You can use a tool called ISOmorphic (sk65205) to completely reimage a device. Feed it the R80.40 ISO image and a USB drive, then boot the firewall from that USB drive. Excluding downloading the image, it should take under half an hour end-to-end.

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Bob_Zimmerman
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You can use a tool called ISOmorphic (sk65205) to completely reimage a device. Feed it the R80.40 ISO image and a USB drive, then boot the firewall from that USB drive. Excluding downloading the image, it should take under half an hour end-to-end.

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dumbhead123
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Hi Bob_Zimmerman, thanks for your post.

As mentioned, we already did reimage to R80.40 , moving forward while doing factory reset , appliance boots up with default R80.30 image.

Looking for a way to change default boot image from R80.30 to R80.40.

This is the output we have from the console. As you can see, no option to factory reset to R80.40.

 

   Check Point Gaia R80.40

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Revert from other image                                                 |

| Reset to factory defaults - Gaia R80.30                                 |

| Start in 64bit no-debug mode                                            |

| Start in maintenance mode 64bit                                         |

| Start in 64bit online debug mode                                        |

| Start in 64bit normal mode                                              |

| HW Diagnostics                                                         

 

 

 

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PhoneBoy
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Did you boot off the USB drive prepared with isomorphic or reimage some other way?

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dumbhead123
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We did clean install using downloaded file and CPUSE.

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G_W_Albrecht
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...and that is the problem - you must use ISOmorphic or you will stay with the old factory defaults.

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Mlinko
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Will the appliance change the Image automaticaly after the installation with the ISOmorphic?

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emmap
Employee
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Yes, a clean install off an ISOMorphic USB key will set the Factory Defaults image to the one installed off the USB key. It is the only way to change the FCD image.

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Mlinko
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Hi,

thx for the Info, I've tested that yesterday and it worked I've chosen an option 4 - Install/Update Image, but the downside was that the config was gone afterwards, I had to configure the console from scratch which is not very ideal :-). Is it always like that?

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PhoneBoy
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Yes, updating the factory image (regardless of method) requires repartitioning the appliance.
This will remove all configuration settings in the process.

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Bob_Zimmerman
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Yes. ISOmorphic wipes the internal drives, sets up a mirrored set if the system has two drives (mdadm), partitions the drives, sets up an LVM2 volume group on the drive, and builds the factory default set of volumes. It then restores from the factory default OS volume to a new volume it names lv_current.

Wiping and reimaging a system with ISOmorphic is the only way to get low-level changes like to the partition table layout or filesystem changes (CPUSE doesn't change between ext3 and XFS). It's also the only way to change the factory default image.

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