Comments on: Installing Olive 10.4R1 under VMware

By: Aspirany

Aspirany — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:14:33 +0000

Hi !

Everybody try to install srx series to vmware?

THX

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:40:01 +0000

I am stymied at the pkg_add – it absolutely fails every time. I tried the modifications suggested here – no luck. Anyone else get a fix for this?

By: Joel Knight

Joel Knight — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:03:21 +0000

Kovilpatti, thanks for outlining the steps so clearly.

By: Kovilpatti

Kovilpatti — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:29:08 +0000

Still if you run in to any problem … try updating all the +CONTENTS with updated md5 checksums of the files, removing unneeded entries like .sig, .md5, .sha1

By: Kovilpatti

Kovilpatti — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:26:48 +0000

Wish you all a very Happy New Year 2012 !!!

As a new year gift, do the below changes to get the installation of JunOS >=10.4R6.5 like 11.2R2.4 work :)

Only the outer +INSTALL file need changes

1. Comment the extractInner line

# extractInner

2. Comment and add like the following

# pkg_add $PKG_FORCE $inner || fail=1
pkg_add $PKG_FORCE jinstall-11.2R2.4-domestic.tgz || fail=1

Now pack them and do the pkg_add and it should install successfully … :)

By: Fipsorg

Fipsorg — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:53:11 +0000

I got the same issue with JunOS 11.4R1.14. Therefore, I took the +INSTALL files of JunOS 11.1R1.14 that was installing fine, I replaced the version numbers.

And… victory 11.4R1.14 can be installed in VMWare (VMware player 4.0.1)

By: vb2k

vb2k — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:28:17 +0000

Well I found out wat the problem was, don’t use a SCSI disk :p

By: vb2k

vb2k — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:16:22 +0000

I followed the instructions above to create a new tar for 10.4R4.5. I get the following error while booting:

md0: Preloaded image 7729152 bytes at 0xc0a7e288
WATCHDOG_TIMER : Loss of soft watchdog
panic:
db_log_stack_trace_cmd(c094e900,c094e900,e04e3b28,e04e3b14,e04e3b14) at db_log_stack_trace_cmd+0×36
….

I’m using ESXi 5.0.0 btw

By: aj

aj — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:02:08 +0000

Great testing!!!.
for 10.4R7.5 what are the names of the directories to use?, i.e.
/var/tmp/jinstall_pkg and
/var/tmp/jinstall_pkg/jinstall

or /var/tmp/jinstall and
/var/tmp/jinstall/jinstall_pkg

we are pkg_add from /var/tmp ??? or from some other directory ?

thanks
P.S. I am having the same problems with 10.4R6.5 and 10.4R7.5

By: Joel Knight

Joel Knight — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:08:14 +0000

Wow, nice find.