How to Install ZeroShell to Hard Disk

How to Install ZeroShell to Hard Disk.

In www.zeroshell.net navigate to download section. you will see "2GB image for IDE, SATA, SCSI e USB disks" and "Iso image for CD" release on July 25, 2012, download both of them.

Option I

• Rename "ZeroShell-2.0.RC1-IDE-USB-SATA-Disk-2GB.img.gz" to some type friendly letters zeroshell.img.gz and copy it to a Pen Drive.

• Burn "ZeroShell-2.0.RC1.iso" to CD.

• Plug the Pen Drive and boot Live CD:

• Once booted hit "S" to bring up Shell Prompt:

•  Get the list of drives: 

fdisk -l

/dev/sda is the Hard Disk
/dev/sdb1 is the Pen Drive

• Delete if there is any partitions on the drive that you are going to install.

fdisk /dev/sda
m (for help).
d (for delete partitions).

• Once you are done, mount the Pen Drive.

mkdir /mnt/pendrive
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/pendrive

•  Next step is extract "zeroshell.img.gz" from pen drive to hard disk.

cd /mnt/pendrive
gunzip -c zeroshell.img.gz > /dev/sda

• Once rebooted ZeroShell will boot from Hard Disk.

Bluecoat PacketShaper goes into safe mode

Couple of weeks ago after updating Packet Shaper new license, the device started going to safe mode. 

I tried to revert back old image (PacketShaper v9.1.1g1), but device was still going safe mode, cannot even load latest firmware. (PacketShaper v9.1.3g1) giving me an error.

So I followed below steps.

Backup of configuration from CLI.

setup capture complete backup.cmd
cd cfg
delete CONFIG.LDI
delete TRAFFIC.CFG
delete SETTINGS.CFG
reset

But still the device going to safe mode. so as a last resort option i decided to factory reset the device, from the browser ftp://xx.xx.xx.xx/cmd
Download the backup.cmd file.

setup reset all

Device came up with default IP Address: 207.78.98.254
Add a matching subnet on the computer, from the cmd:

ftp 207.78.98.254
cd 9.258/
put 9_1_3.zoo (make sure to put image file in cmd directory)
bye

Now load the image.

telnet 207.78.98.254
cd 9.258/
image load 9_1_3.zoo

It fixed the safe mode issue, and even I have updated firmware same time. I could have loaded the old configurations backup file i took. but its so messy full of unnecessary traffic classes and partition that in my organization don't need, so I did the configurations and traffic classes, partition from scratch to keep it clean.

Works Great.