BCM 3.7 to 4 upgrade

[tech2233]

Has anyone tried a BCM 3.7 to 4.0 upgrade ? I have read the documentation and it seems both risky, and time consuming.

Did the upgrade go smoothly ? Is 4.0 stable ?

 

[acewarlock]

I didn't know the 4.0 was available yet.

 

[biv343]

Upgrade is GA and orderable on August 28. Systems will start shipping with 4.0 on August 31.

Documents I read said that the upgrade takes less time than before - anywhere from 1 hour to 1.5 hours. I'm looking forward to doing one myself to see if that's really the case.

 

[senk1s]

i'm waitin gto get my hands on one of these as well.

I know how much fun i had installing Linux on my Win XP (but this is NTe and NT has been testing it for almost a year)

3.6, 3.7 upgrades were just fine

 

[acewarlock]

I'd like to get 1 so I can test it to see if we want to upgrade all 60 of our site's. Are these FREE like the other upgrade's or do we have to pay fotr them.

 

[biv343]

Nope, not free anymore - 3.6 was the last free release. Price depends on whether your system is on release 3.6 or 3.7. It's pretty reasonably priced for what you get.

 

[steeef]

I've already upgraded my systems to 4.0 (Beta) (3.6, 3.7, BCM200, BCM400, BCM1000 and also SRGs)
It worked fine for all of them.

Check the following things before upgrading:
- never try to upgrade a BCM200 with a BCM400 Motherboard or vice versa. This worked fine with 3.7, but will run you into problems with 4.0.

- make sure that your harddisk has the right partition sizes. If it has never been re-imaged or has been re-imaged with the right ghost-command you will have no problems.

 

[senk1s]

thanks a lot steef ... that should save us some time and energy

 

[joecool66]

I've been working with BCM400 4.0 and I really like it, its alot better than any other versions.

 

[mrt98]

Yes did the same upgrade with no issues took about 4 hrs total.

 

[mrt98]

actuall I did the 3.6 to 3.7 then 3.7 to 4.0 4 hrs total.

 

[acewarlock]

You do realize this Question is 6 months old?

Plus you could have gone from 3.6 to 4.0. you didn't need to go to 3.7 1st.