Juniper J-Series Administration Manual page 214

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
Recovery Hardware
Host system
Adapter appropriate for your system
Recovery Software
Software appropriate for your system
Systems running Windows require additional
software.
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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Recovering Primary Boot Devices
Examples
Desktop or laptop PC equipped with a PCMCIA controller or USB port
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
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
utility from the Cygwin package
dd
physdiskwrite utility