Recycle an old unit

[#1]

We have recently retired an old Fortigate 200. We' d like to try converting it to a rack-mount " desktop" . I do a lot of remote work and am usually working around other schedules to get access to desktop. This would help a lot and allow us to recycle the hardware. Has anyone out there tried loading Windows onto a Fortigate HD before? Or even know if it is possible?

[iFortify]

I have read this post a couple of times and I am still confused.

[#3]

I am about 10,000 miles from the customer I support. I remote to a desktop machine. (Actual computer in an office.) We would like to set up their old Fortigate unit with Windows XP. This would allow it to be rack-mounted and out of everyone' s way. And I won' t have to fight someone else for use of their computer. :) Just trying to think outside the box and reuse some old equipment. Does this explanation help?

[rwpatterson]

Why don' t you sell the 200 on eBay, and take the proceeds and buy a used P.O.S. beater machine. They are dirt cheap nowadays...

[os]

Why not update the firmware to ver 3.0 MR7 Patch 2 (latest release) and use SSL VPN? The web portal has an RDP client (java) If you setup full tunnel mode you can use applications installed on your local machine.

[rwpatterson]

His issue is he doesn' t need the unit as a firewall, and he does need a workstation....