Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate-5000 Firmware And Fortiusb Manual page 16

Testing a new firmware image before installing it
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To test the new firmware image
1 Connect a management computer to the FortiGate CLI using the FortiGate
console port.
2 Connect a FortiGate interface to your network.
3 Make sure the TFTP server is running and connected to the same network as the
FortiGate interface.
4 Copy the new firmware image file to the root directory of the TFTP server.
5 Enter the following command to restart the FortiGate module.
execute reboot
The FortiGate module responds with the following message:
This operation will reboot the system!
Do you want to continue? (y/n)
6 Type y.
As the FortiGate module starts, a series of system startup messages is displayed.
When the following messages appears:
Press any key to display configuration menu..........
......
7 Immediately press any key to interrupt the system startup.
.
Note: You have only 3 seconds to press any key. If you do not press a key soon enough,
the FortiGate module reboots and you must log in and repeat the execute reboot
command.
If you successfully interrupt the startup process, the following menu appears:
[G]: Get firmware image from TFTP server.
[F]: Format boot device.
[B]: Boot with backup firmware and set as default.
[I]: Configuration and information.
[Q]: Quit menu and continue to boot with default
firmware.
[H]: Display this list of options.
Enter G,F,B,I,Q,or H:
8 Type I and the Configuration and information menu is displayed:
[S]: Set serial port baudrate(will take effect on next
boot).
[T]: Set image download port.
[C]: Set DHCP enable (will take effect on next boot).
[D]: Set bootup debug message display (will take effect
on next boot).
[I]: Display hardware information.
[Q]: Quit this menu.
[H]: Display this list of options.
Enter S,T,C,D,I,Q,or H:
9 Type T to set the image download interface. The following message is displayed:
Enter image download port number [1]:
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