J-series™ Services Router Administration Guide

CAUTION: This procedure does not recover any router configuration files. After you reinstall the JUNOS software, all the information on the original internal compact flash is lost.

Recommended Recovery Hardware and Software

Before configuring compact flash recovery, assemble the equipment and software listed in Table 100 on page 192.

Table 100: Recommended Recovery Hardware and Software

Recommended Hardware and Software

Examples

Recovery Hardware

 

Host system

Desktop or laptop PC equipped with a PCMCIA controller or USB port

Adapter appropriate for your system

For systems with PCMCIA controllers, a compact-flash-to-PCMCIA

 

adapter—for example, a Macally PCM-CF compact flash PCMCIA adapter.

 

For systems with a USB port, a USB-to-compact-flash adapter. For

 

example:

 

SIIG USB 2.0 Card Reader, model US2274, part number JU-CF0122

 

MediaGear USB 2.0 Combo 9-in-4, model MGTR100

 

AVP USB 8-in-1 Card Reader, model UC-28

 

Inland Multi-Plus Card Reader, part number 08310

 

HummingBird Multi Card Reader, HCR 81

Recovery Software

 

Software appropriate for your system

Systems running Windows require additional software.

UNIX with PCMCIA drivers

Windows 2000, or Windows XP

WinZip, gzip, or a similar compression utility

A utility such as the following that allows you to write files to unformatted devices:

Norton Ghost

dd utility from the Cygwin package

physdiskwrite utility

Configuring Internal Compact Flash Recovery

To recover an internal compact flash with a corrupt or missing operating system, you must remove the corrupt internal compact from the J-series Services Router, plug it into a PC with a PCMIA adapter or USB card reader, copy the JUNOS recovery software package onto it, and reinstall on the router. For instructions about how to remove and install an internal compact flash, see the Getting Started Guide for your router.

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