Installing Vyatta

To run from hard disk, you must install to the hard disk from a LiveCD. The software image on the LiveCD includes an installation script for installing the Vyatta system software onto the persistent device.

 

You can download the Vyatta LiveCD from here : http://www.vyatta.org/downloads

1)To install the operating system and Vyatta system software, you need a minimum of 450 MB of free space on your hard drive for a root partition.

2)After the startup messages complete, the login prompt appears:

 

vyatta login:

 

3) Log on to the system as root with the password :  vyatta 

4) At the system command prompt enter the following to start the installation of the Vyatta Router:

 

install-system

 

5) The installer launches.

 6) After completed the previews steps for the installation you are ready to start configuring Vyatta.

Notes

1. You have to assigned the appropriate ethernet ports that you want to use on your router before you start installing Vyatta.
2. Make backups of Vyatta's configuration files. 
3. When you are running Vyatta from Virtual Machine you can't transfer the image to a different computer. Vyatta is sensible with the MAC addresses of the default Ethernet ports and when you copy/transfer the image the configurations and the default ports are going to changed .