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

[Jonas Frey (Probe Networks)]

Martin,

yes thats the correct way to do it. Only the pc-card slot is able to
fully partition both CF and HDD using a install-media image and get you
a fresh and blank JunOS installed.
It will install on both CF and HDD and thus you will have a redundant
setup (when either CF or HDD fails). 

Regards,
Jonas


Am Donnerstag, den 10.02.2011, 02:52 +0200 schrieb 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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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Martin T
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:00 PM
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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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