[j-nsp] general guidelines for installing JUNOS to RE, where HDD and CF are blank

[Martin T]

Chris, Alex:

so one needs to download "install-media-*", dd(1) this image(as I
understand, it contains MBR and file-system with installation files)
to CF and finally insert the CF to "PC Card" adapter in order to
insert it into "PC Card" slot of RE-850? This will make default setup,
where JUNOS is installed to CF(ad0), but /var is mounted to HDD(ad1)?
In addition, how to make a redundant setup, where RE is able to boot
from HDD and be fully functional if CF fails(I have CF as first boot
device and HDD second one)?

regards,
martin

2011/2/9 Ryu, Alex <Alex.Ryu at windstream.com>:
> You just need to copy installation media image to PCMCIA media, and use it for installation.
> It will automatically format/partition/install JUNOS into RE during the boot.
>
> Alex
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> Subject: [j-nsp] general guidelines for installing JUNOS to RE, where HDD and CF are blank
>
> I have a RE-850 with Compact Flash and PATA 2.5" form factor HDD installed. However, both of these are zero-filled. What are the general guidelines to get JONOS running on this RE?
>
> Boot order in BIOS is following:
>
> PCMCIA ATA Flash Card
> Compact Flash
> Primary IDE Hard Disk
> Ethernet
>
> As I have no "PCMCIA ATA Flash Card" in RE, I think it's smart to start with CF. Are the required steps something like this:
>
> 1) insert compact flash card(1GB) to laptop using CF-to-PC-Card adapter
>
> 2) create MBR partition table like this(CF card is associated with /dev/sdb):
>
> printf "0,1024,a5,*\n0,0\n0,0\n0,0\n;\n" | sfdisk -uM /dev/sdb
>
> ..it will make a partition in 1024MB size with "system ID" a5(FreeBSD) and make it bootable. Other three primary partitions are not used. In other words output should be something like this:
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1        2030     1023088+  a5  FreeBSD
>
> 3) make filesystem to this /dev/sdb1 partition using ufsutils mkfs.ufs utility:
>
> mkfs.ufs -O 1 /dev/sdb1
>
> ..however, I'm very unsure, should I enable journaling, is volume name needed or any other more advanced filesystem options(?)
>
> 4) as I understand, now I need to install FreeBSD in order to install jinstall-xxxx.tgz bundle using pkg_add later. How to accomplish FreeBSD installation in such conditions? Which version should I install? Or are there any other possibilities to get JUNOS running on CF?
>
>
> regards,
> martin
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