[j-nsp] Code upgrade to 10.4R4.5

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Wed, 11 May 2011, Jared Mauch wrote:

> I'm sure someone from Juniper will say that going forward like this 
> "isn't supported".
>
> I recommend skipping the validate step and making sure you have good 
> oob.  You can also try to find something where the upgrade path is 
> supported, in theory you need to jump to 10.0 before 10.4 but i've found 
> that if you use the jinstall that's not needed.

I upgraded a pair of M7is a few months ago from 8.5R4.3 to 10.3R1.9 and 
had to go through a few intermediate upgrades to avoid the errors you 
described, in addition to upgrading the RAM and compact flash on the 
RE-400.  I didn't try the no-validate option though.

jms