3300 version 7 to MCD 4.0 upgrade is taking forever!!!!!!

[AlaskanPolarBear]

I'm currently at 4:43 minutes and counting! Should I just pull the power and start over or will I have an expensive doorstop?

I've done 6 of these upgrades this year and this is the longest any have taken by far.

I'm using the MCD software installer tool. And I still need to make the jump from 4.0 to 4.2 tonight!!!

Anyone had one take a long time like this?

Coffee pot is getting empty fast on this one!!!

 

[fissure]

I always like to have a serial cable to the Mitel, and Hyperterminal open to watch what is going on (you get more detail that way, than with 'view log' in the software upgrade tool)

with a few recent upgrades (going to v4, to then go to v4.2) it seems to have got itself into a reboot loop, and I've had to manually change:

file name : /partition4/RTC8260
to:
file name : /partition1/Rtc8260

to get things back on track....

cheers, Neil (who is very eagerly anticipating MCD v5)

 

[kwbMitel]

There are many things that can cause issues with upgrades.

If you are local to the controller (On the same LAN) an upgrade would take roughly 1 hour.

Larger systems with embedded VM (200+ users) I've seen take up to 2 hours. (Difference is time to create backup).

My best guess would be hard drive failure

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[nytalkin]

I don't think you can go directly from Rel 7 to anything above rEL 9. Upgrade to 9 first the to 4.x. Make sure you have 512mb of memory too.

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED!

 

[kwbMitel]

Nytalkin - No issues upgrading from rel 7 - MCD 4.0.

Rel 6 would require full install.

Can't remember older than that.

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What's most important is that you realise ... There is no spoon.

 

[nytalkin]

You're right KWB. I knew there was a cutoff but too lazy to look it up.

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED!

 

[AlaskanPolarBear]

Finally got the system back up. The problem was the IT guys at my company had my laptop so locked down that the ICP couldn't pull the file from the FTP server running on the laptop. It was able to login though. Long night at anyrate. Thanks for all the suggestions.