How to install VyOS 1.1.7 on an Alix 2c1 or similar i386 single board computer

Update March 2017: I have an updated version of this procedure for VyOS, the open source community fork of Vyatta, available in a new post: VyOS on Alix 2C1 Single Board Computer.

With the impending move to an apartment in Georgia and the migration of my rack full of servers …

I know I’ve been quite for a while. I’ve been quite busy. Unfortunately, due to changing priorities, there are a lot of projects I’ve been working on, but few of them have gotten finished. A sampling, in no specific order:

• Migrating my network/service monitoring to Nagios …