The Gaia Operating System

In This Section: Installing the Gaia Operating System on Check Point Appliances Installing the Gaia Operating System on Open Servers Installing a Blink Image to Configure a Check Point Gateway Appliance Changing Disk Partition Sizes During the Installation of Gaia Operating System Running an Unattended USB Installation of Gaia on Check Point Appliances Configuring Gaia for the First Time Configuring the IP Address of the Gaia Management Interface Changing the Disk Partition Sizes on an Installed Gaia Enabling IPv6 on Gaia

Installing the Gaia Operating System on Check Point Appliances

Note - These instructions do not apply to the 1100, 1200R, and 1400 Check Point appliances models. These models run Gaia Embedded operating system that is installed using a firmware package.

For a list of supported appliances, see the R80.30 Release Notes.

To install a clean Gaia Operating System on a Check Point appliance, you can:

• Restore your Check Point appliance to Factory Defaults. This removes all configurations.
• Perform a clean install of the supported Gaia image with one of these options:
  • Bootable USB device.
  • CPUSE (if Gaia is already installed) - select the desired Check Point version and perform Clean Install. See sk92449 for detailed steps.

To reset a Check Point appliance to factory defaults:

Important - This operation reverts the appliance to the last Gaia that was installed using the Clean Install method.

Step	Description
1	Connect to the appliance using the serial console.
2	Restart the appliance.
3	During boot, when prompted, press any key within 4 seconds to enter the Boot menu: Loading the system Press any key to see the boot menu [Booting in 5 seconds]
4	Select Reset to factory defaults and press Enter.
5	Type yes and press Enter.
6	Run the Gaia First Time Configuration Wizard.

To perform a clean install of the supported Gaia image with a bootable USB device:

Step	Description
1	Download the Gaia Operating System Clean Install ISO file from the R80.30 Home Page SK.
2	See sk65205 to create a bootable USB device. Important - Always use the latest available build of the ISOmorphic Tool. If you use an outdated build, the installation can fail.
3	Run the Gaia First Time Configuration Wizard.

To perform a clean install of the supported Gaia image with the CPUSE:

See Installing Software Packages on Gaia and follow the applicable action plan for the local installation.