[j-nsp] Upgrade without PCMCIA card?

[chiel]

Anyway, Should I be save if I upgrade top 7.6R4? The router is only for 
testing purposes.
Btw, I seem to only be able to download the 8.x version of JUNOS from the 
juniper site. Where can I find the 7.x?

Thanks all for responding!
chiel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras at e-gerbil.net>
To: "Shawn Morris" <shawn at smorris.com>
Cc: <juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Upgrade without PCMCIA card?


> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:53:04AM -0800, Shawn Morris wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I'll second the problems with offbrand CF cards, though it might also have
> been because I was trying 2GB + high-speed (133x). The known-working
> solution for me was 512MB "standard" speed SanDisk, never had a problem
> with those.
>
> Of course if you're running any kind of complex configuration or large
> number of routes RE-2.0's are going to be dead to you just based on CPU
> speed and the 768MB hard memory limitation, but the people out there who
> are running relatively simple configurations on M5-M20s should still be
> able to keep them alive a couple more years.
>
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