Restore Fortimail 100 help

[Alexey_Lavrenkov]

Good day. Help pleas to restore old FortiMail 100. We get it as device with failed HDD (no HDD). It booted up with 3.0 software version. I download and tied to install 4.0MR3 version via web interface, and system writes something like ”file very big for download”. At Fortinet.com documentation I realize about that trouble and there was advice as install it via CLI console. I do that, and device failed to start. I reject starting procedure from Fortimail BIOS, format boot device and install new software at full reformatted device. It does not helped too – the errors appear. Also, other type errors appear at try to install old 3.0 software too. Meant any software can’t be installed. AT Fortimail 4.0 Exist something “Maintenance mode”. May be need to to something via that mode? Or Fortimail strongly need HDD for boot? Other way in original configuration it work without HDD even. I confused. Have any advice?

FE-100 (19:48-03.09.2006)

Ver:04000005

Super io and COM port initialization completed.

Start RAM initialization.

Start to setup MTRR.

Serial number:FE-1003107501317

RAM activation

Ready to main hardware initialization.

Start LCD initialization.

Total RAM: 512MB

Enabling cache...Done.

Start to enumerate PCI device.

Scanning PCI bus...Done.

Start PCI configuration.

Allocating PCI resources...Done.

Start to enable PCI device.

Enabling PCI resources...Done.

Start mainboard final initialization.

Start superIO final initialization.

Start northbridge final initialization.

Start southbridge final initialization.

Zeroing IRQ settings...Done.

Verifying PIRQ tables...Done.

Disabling local APIC...Done.

Boot up, boot device capacity: 122MB.

Press any key to display configuration menu...

.............................................................

Reading boot image 2743499 bytes.

Initializing Fortimail...

booting Fortimail

Press the 'm' key to enter maintenance mode.....

mounting /data failed

** booting from BACKUP device

mounting /var/log failed

mounting /var/spool failed

Initialize Database ...

Initialize Configuration …

EL_parse_init error 540!

EL_parse_init error 396!

***_ Loop repeat _***

[Carl_Windsor_FTNT]

You will need a HDD to boot (and certainly to function). 

What are you trying to achieve here?  3.0 is 11 years old, 4.0 is 9 years old and both are long out of support. 

Carl

[Alexey_Lavrenkov]

Yes, i understand EOS/EOL.

It is just for demo test zone as e-mail collector. Just wonder why it does not start. Ok, will try to add HDD. Is there strongly 250Gb or i can place less?