[j-nsp] Upgrade without PCMCIA card?

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:09:28PM -0400, chiel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to upgrade a M5 from 6.2R2.4 to 8.5R1.14. But I don't have a PCMCIA card, see bellow:
> 
> root> request system software add non-validate reboot /var/tmp/jinstall-8.5R1.14-export-signed.tgz
> Installing package '/var/tmp/jinstall-8.5R1.14-export-signed.tgz' ...
> Verified MD5 checksum of jinstall-8.5R1.14-export.tgz
> Adding jinstall...
> 
> WARNING: This installation will not succeed.
> WARNING: The boot device is less than 256M.
> WARNING: A hardware upgrade is required.

JUNOS 8.5 and beyond will no longer fit on compact flash less than 256MB 
(some mysterous 40MB addition to the jpfe-common image which I haven't 
bothered to track down yet), which means no stock M5 RE will ever support 
it.

You could upgrade your CF (unsupported but doable, not recommended for 
novices). but if you're like every other M5 user who upgraded to 8.x last 
week you'll probably end up blowing out with FEB DRAM as soon as you do 
anyways. You could of course also upgrade this (also unsupported :P), but 
if any of this is confusing the correct answer is to downgrade code or 
upgrade platform. :)

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