[j-nsp] Upgrade without PCMCIA card?

[Jonas Frey (Probe Networks)]

Hello,

speaking of CF upgrades...anyone here did any yet?
Wondering how much cf memory the RE(2|3) can handle.

Regards,
Jonas

On Thu, December 20, 2007 00:53, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> 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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