[j-nsp] Upgrade without PCMCIA card?

[Shawn Morris]

We've done some upgrades of both RE3s and RE2s in our lab to 1g.  On
the RE3 it's extremely simple as it's designed to be a FRU.  You just
open a latch and replace the card.  On the RE2 you have to remove the
faceplate and about 5 screws on the bottom to remove the daugtherboard
that the HD sits on and then the CF is on a daughterboard underneath
that.  We tried using some el-cheapo CF cards from Micro Center and
those did not work.  We had to use regular Sandisk 1g CF cards.

On 12/20/07, Jonas Frey (Probe Networks) <jf at probe-networks.de> wrote:
> 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. :)
> >
> > --
> > Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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