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ciscokid1903
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Created on ‎05-11-2010 01:44 AM

USB Boot Feature

Please forgive me if there is already a post about this but a search on this forum and on the FortiNet KB articles did not return any results. Can anyone give a detailed instruction on how to boot a FortiGate/FortiMail from a USB drive. I am keen to document this for co-workers in case we have an emergency and need to quickly replace/swap out FortiGate units.
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Carl_Wallmark
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Created on ‎05-11-2010 03:17 AM

Hi, You cannot boot from a USB device, only prep it with a firmware and do a automatic upgrade of the firmware on boot.

FCNSA, FCNSP
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FortiGate 200A/B, 224B, 110C, 100A/D, 80C/CM/Voice, 60B/C/CX/D, 50B, 40C, 30B
FortiAnalyzer 100B, 100C
FortiMail 100,100C
FortiManager VM
FortiAuthenticator VM
FortiToken
FortiAP 220B/221B, 11C

FCNSA, FCNSP---FortiGate 200A/B, 224B, 110C, 100A/D, 80C/CM/Voice, 60B/C/CX/D, 50B, 40C, 30BFortiAnalyzer 100B, 100CFortiMail 100,100CFortiManager VMFortiAuthenticator VMFortiTokenFortiAP 220B/221B, 11C
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ciscokid1903
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Created on ‎05-11-2010 05:15 AM

Do you have instructions on the steps required? Or is there a guide somewhere that details the commands required?
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Carl_Wallmark
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Created on ‎05-11-2010 05:47 AM

check this: http://kb.fortinet.com/kb/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=FD31911&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KCARTICLE_1_1&dialogID=6168578&stateId=0 0 6170016

FCNSA, FCNSP
---
FortiGate 200A/B, 224B, 110C, 100A/D, 80C/CM/Voice, 60B/C/CX/D, 50B, 40C, 30B
FortiAnalyzer 100B, 100C
FortiMail 100,100C
FortiManager VM
FortiAuthenticator VM
FortiToken
FortiAP 220B/221B, 11C

FCNSA, FCNSP---FortiGate 200A/B, 224B, 110C, 100A/D, 80C/CM/Voice, 60B/C/CX/D, 50B, 40C, 30BFortiAnalyzer 100B, 100CFortiMail 100,100CFortiManager VMFortiAuthenticator VMFortiTokenFortiAP 220B/221B, 11C
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ciscokid1903
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Created on ‎05-11-2010 07:41 AM

Thanks
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