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Question regarding bare-metal hardware and SFOS Home

So -- in the olden days we could take old retired SG appliances, wipe the drive (delete partitions with Gparted, etc.), and load SFOS Home on them -- we had engineers that would run them at home for training, and to test bleeding-edge releases, etc.   Apparently the new bare-metal software installers (ISOs) for v20 and up (and maybe the old ones) detect if one is trying to do the same with a XG (not XGS) appliance.  As best I can tell the installer sees the BIOS string with the model number in it and says it will not install, due to it being a XG appliance (no doubt to keep end user customers from accidentally goofing up their appliances).   So it looks like that avenue for inexpensively training engineers is closed.... (though if someone has a helpful hint that's great too).

That said, what bare-metal hardware suitable for use in a home environment (someone without a rack, something that doesn't sound like a jet plane) have you had success with?  Not looking for crazy performance or anything, just basic home use for our engineers, etc.



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[edited by: Erick Jan at 7:12 AM (GMT -7) on 26 Sep 2024]
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  • It doesn't work that way now.  The newer installers definitely look at the DMI data in the BIOS.  Actually found another poster on the forum here who had the same experience, same resolution.

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