[j-nsp] Image compatibility

[Leigh Porter]

Yeah well it's fudge marketing.. Cisco could do the same if they had 
90Mb images too I am sure. Then you'd just have to tral through all the 
myriad of variations of feature-sets and releases...

I agree though, I am sure I can work out what's an M10 and thats a M160 
myself..

--
Leigh

Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:59:11AM -0500, Hyunseog Ryu wrote:
>   
>> Of course, that is key feature of junos.
>>     
>
> Just remember that already more than 60% of the size of a JUNOS image is 
> all the different subimages for each platform, and it's only going to get 
> worse with new platforms and feature bloat creep in.
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 ras  ras   2936350 Aug  2 03:56 jpfe-M10-8.3R2.8.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 ras  ras  13376060 Aug  2 03:58 jpfe-M120-8.3R2.8.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 ras  ras   4788351 Aug  2 03:56 jpfe-M160-8.3R2.8.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 ras  ras   8265202 Aug  2 03:57 jpfe-M320-8.3R2.8.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 ras  ras   4700764 Aug  2 03:56 jpfe-M40-8.3R2.8.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 ras  ras   4354887 Aug  2 03:57 jpfe-M7i-8.3R2.8.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 ras  ras   7766830 Aug  2 03:57 jpfe-T-8.3R2.8.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 ras  ras   3360007 Aug  2 03:58 jpfe-X960-8.3R2.8.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 ras  ras   8852022 Aug  2 03:56 jpfe-common-8.3R2.8.tgz
>
> Personally I value the quicker install time of a reduce image size 
> (especially if you must use jinstall and reboot twice on older REs, ouch) 
> more than the "look ma one image" marketing. Being able to optionally 
> download a platform specific tarball would actually be nice. Then again so 
> would being able to fetch an image from Juniper via ftp or from the router 
> CLI instead of having to bust out lynx-ssl and scp. :)
>
>