Copying The Junos Os To The Compactflash Card In A Ptx5000 Routing Engine - Juniper PTX5000 Hardware Manual

5. Reinstall the Routing Engine cover and tighten the screws on the corners of the cover to secure it to
the Routing Engine (using a number 2 Phillips (+) screwdriver).
6. From the primary Routing Engine, issue the request system power-on other-routing-engine command to
power on the Routing Engine.
NOTE: You may get an error message and be prompted for a keystroke. After you press the
keystroke, it might take up to 10 minutes for the Routing Engine to reset and for the router to
boot from the solid-state disk.
Figure 250: Installing a Routing Engine CompactFlash Card

Copying the Junos OS to the CompactFlash Card in a PTX5000 Routing Engine

After installing the CompactFlash card for the first time, you must copy the software from the Routing
Engine's solid-state disk (SSD) to the CompactFlash card.
To copy software to the CompactFlash card:
1. On the console or other management device connected to the Routing Engine, enter CLI operational
mode, and copy the currently running and active file system partitions on the router to standby
partitions on the CompactFlash card. Issue the request system snapshot partition command.
2. Wait until a message appears on the console confirming that the snapshot partition procedure is
complete.
3. Issue the request system reboot command to reboot the router's software.
4. Issue the show system boot-messages command to verify that the CompactFlash card is listed as the
primary boot device. The output lists the devices mounted. The CompactFlash card is located at ad0.
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