Nortel 1000E Maintenance Manual page 114

114 Replacing equipment
Create a bootable RMD with software
The installation RMD CF card must come preformatted and bootable from
Nortel . Consumer CF cards are not bootable by default and must be made
bootable. For more information, see
RMD with software" (page
Procedure 13
Creating a bootable RMD with software
Step
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Back up the NRS database
Before replacing a CP PM Signaling Server card, back up the NRS
database. For more information, see
database" (page
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CAUTION
Data Loss
The PC utility used in the following procedure (mkbootrmd.exe)
does not validate whether the drive letter entered is a valid RMD
CF card. You must enter the correct RMD drive letter when
prompted or risk formatting the incorrect drive.
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Action
After downloading the software image file, unzip it to a directory
on your PC.
Open the utilities folder.
Double click the mkbootrmd.bat file.
The mkbootrmd.exe utility is supported by all versions of Microsoft
Windows.
After you see the prompt to do so, insert a blank 512 MByte CF card.
At the prompt, enter the correct drive letter of the RMD.
After the boot sector files (bootrom.sys and nvram.sys) are
successfully copied, the CF card is bootable
Copy the unzipped software files from the PC onto the RMD.
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Nortel Communication Server 1000
Communication Server 1000E Maintenance
NN43041-700 01.02 Standard
Release 5.0 20 June 2007
Procedure 13 "Creating a bootable
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Procedure 14 "Backing up the NRS