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Choosing the USB stick
Requirements for the USB stick:
In order to install an ISO on the beroNet Appliance, you need to prepare a bootable USB stick. It should have the following characteristics:
- 8 GB or more
- FAT32 formatted
Steps to boot the
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Appliance from a USB stick
No matter which OS you wish to install on the appliance, follow these steps in order to boot from the USB stick:
- Plugin the recovery USB stick
- Hold F11 during boot to reach the Boot-Options menu
- Choose the USB stick, for example "General USB Flash DIsk" (do not choose UEFI)
Installation of Windows 10 on the
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Appliance
Creation of the USB stick for windows 10
Microsoft offers a tool (Media Creation Tool) in order to install windows Windows 10 on a PC/server. You can download the tool and check how it works on this pageThe tool can be downloaded from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Once you have download downloaded the tool, follow the installation process:
Accept Read and accept the terms and conditions. On the window screen "What do you want to do?", choose "Create installation media for another PC" and click "Next".
Choose the "desired Architecture. Recommended: 64-bit Bit (x64) architecture:
Choose "USB flash drive" as the media to use and select the one you want to use:
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Once the process is done, click on "Finish". You can now plug the USB key to into your appliance. See below for "installing OS on the appliance".
Windows BIOS settings
If your appliance gets stuck after rebooting, please check the bios setup. To do so, press F11 after starting the device and click on "Enter setup" in the screen below:
Make sure the following configuration BIOS-Configuration is set:
BIOS can be accessed by pressing DEL on start.
1. Boot > Boot → Boot Option Priorities
P1: General USB Drive / "Your USB stick"
P2: [UEFI] General USB Drive
P3: SSD
2. Boot > Setup → Setup Prompt Timeout = 3
3. Advanced > Restore → Restore Power AC Loss = ON
4. Advanced > USB → USB Configuration > XHCI Mode = EnabledEnabled (ONLY ON BNTA20 models)
5. Chipset > DVMT → DVMT Total Gfx Mem = 128MB
Installation of
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Windows 10 on the beroNet
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Appliance
Once the USB stick is ready, plug it into the Appliance. You should also plug connect a screen monitor and a keyboard to it. When you turn the appliance Appliance on, the installation of windows Windows should proceed automatically. Choose the language you want to install the OS in and the keyboard layout.
We advise you to install windows Windows 10 proPro. If you wish to install 3CX, you must use windows Windows 10 proPro.
Windows will detect 4 partitions. Those partitions have been created by the beroNet hypervisor Hypervisor which is installed on the applianceAppliance. Delete themall partitions.
Once you have deleted the partitions, install windows Windows on drive 0. On an M appliance -Appliance you should have around 60 Gb 60GB of space. 120 GB 120GB on an L and 240 240GB on the XL-model.
Click on "Next" and let the installation proceed.
Once it is finished, the appliance Appliance will reboot. After rebooting, it will try to boot from the USB stick again. In order to prevent windows for installing againWindows from being installed once more, unplug the USB stick and let the appliance boot on its from the SSD.
Drivers for windows
Once windows Windows is ready, we advise you to install a few drivers designed for beroNet hardware.
You can find the list of drivers to install here:
BNTA20-model: http://beronet.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/appliance/BNTA2/MITX_6770/Driver/
BNTA21-model: https://www.asrock.com/ipc/overview.asp?Model=IMB-155#osW8164
BNTA22-model: https://www.asrock.com/ipc/overview.asp?Model=IMB-155#osW8164
Installation of another OS
Once you have formatted your USB stick, download the program "tuxboot" here.
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If you have issues using tuxboot, you can also use "Win32 disk Imager" available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
If your Appliance has an integrated Gateway
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We recommend the use of a Windows network bridge. To use the Network Brigde under Windows based Systems (Windows SBS Versions don't seem to support Network Bridging) open "network connections" Window. As already seen in the chapter IP-Forwarding, you will see two Network controllers. Your standard Host Network Controller ("Local Area Network Connection 1") and the beroFix Network Controller ("Local Area Network Connection 2"). To create the Network Bridge please select both connections and click the right mouse button. The following context menu will appear:
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As you might notice the network controllers don't have IP Address's any more. You can only assign an IP-Address to the bridge controller. By default the bridge is in DHCP mode. If you please mark the bridge, click the right mouse button, choose "Preferences" and configure an IP-Address. At that moment the network bridge is reachable throughout the LAN and you can therefore reach the beroFix beroNet Gateway web-interface. For example:
Let's assume your LAN is 172.20.0.0/255.255.0.0, your bridge got an IP 172.20.5.194 and you configured beroFix beroNet Gateway internal IP address to 172.20.70.11. Through the configured bridge, the beroFix beroNet device is reachable from the whole network now, if your firewall is not blocking it!