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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

How to workaround ONTAP upgrade issues?

The problem: Having trouble upgrading ONTAP

Explanation:
A small and useful undocumented tip - if your upgrades fail, try to delete the contents of /etc/boot (\\filer\etc$\boot in Windows).
While it sounds scary, the filer doesn't really reference this directory other than when the download command is used, so it's practically safe to delete it, and then retry the software installation.
Another tip is to stop using this old setup.exe or tar file trick but rather copy the setup.exe file to /etc/software (\\filer\etc$\software) and use software install setup.exe; download instead.

1 comment:

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