To install and run ONL you need is an ONL Compatible switch (see

http://opennetlinux.org/hcl) and the ONL installer binary. Every

ONL compatible switch ships with the ONIE installer environment installed

which gives you a multitude of ways of getting ONL installed on your switch.



We document the easiest ways here (manual install via console and NFS)

but the http://onie.org website contains a variety of installation

methods including via USB, over the network, and even via ssh.



The resulting installation has a default account ("root") with a default

password ("onl"). The network interface is disabled by default so that

you can change the root password before the system comes up.



ONL Manual Install

1) Attach a serial terminal to the switch

2) Boot switch and hit return to go to ONIE''s interactive mode

2a) You must wait until after uboot has finished loading; if you

accidentally interupt uboot first, just run boot to continue

booting into ONIE

3) Download the ONL installer from http://opennetlinux.org and run it by hand



Expected Serial Console Output (from an QuantaMesh LB9, other switches ouput will vary):