We have an old nortel Contivity 1050 in our office which we use for VPN access to a small office. It was still running server software it was delivered with (4.7).
We have started upgrading PC's to 64 Bit Windows. The 32-bit versions of the Nortel VPN client will not work with 64-bit Windows, so we installed 64-bit version 10 on a pc. That PC was unable to connect to our VPN router, due to the age of the server software.
I needed to upgrade to the latest server software release (V8.0). Unfortunately, I learned the hard way that units with the original 32MB of flash installed could NOT be upgrade beyond 4.85. Nortel sells a 64MB flash disk, but they are hard to come by and expensive. We had a 128MB Sandisk CF card lying around, and I wondered if we could use it. I spoke with Nortel engineers who said they thought it was possible, but could not support me.
Well, with many trials and tribulations, I figured out how to make it work beautifully! There is a shareware program called HDClone. unlike most HD cloning software, it recognizes removable flash drives. I bought a USB Flash reader, created an image of the original CF card from the 1050 to my HD, then restored it to the 128MB card, instructing it to expand the partition size to use the whole 128mb. Put the card back in the 1050, and it worked!
From there upgrading to 8.0 was easy!
Anyone need assistance with this, (I assume the 1100 applies as well), free free to contact me. bsnyder@neosllc.com.
We have started upgrading PC's to 64 Bit Windows. The 32-bit versions of the Nortel VPN client will not work with 64-bit Windows, so we installed 64-bit version 10 on a pc. That PC was unable to connect to our VPN router, due to the age of the server software.
I needed to upgrade to the latest server software release (V8.0). Unfortunately, I learned the hard way that units with the original 32MB of flash installed could NOT be upgrade beyond 4.85. Nortel sells a 64MB flash disk, but they are hard to come by and expensive. We had a 128MB Sandisk CF card lying around, and I wondered if we could use it. I spoke with Nortel engineers who said they thought it was possible, but could not support me.
Well, with many trials and tribulations, I figured out how to make it work beautifully! There is a shareware program called HDClone. unlike most HD cloning software, it recognizes removable flash drives. I bought a USB Flash reader, created an image of the original CF card from the 1050 to my HD, then restored it to the 128MB card, instructing it to expand the partition size to use the whole 128mb. Put the card back in the 1050, and it worked!
From there upgrading to 8.0 was easy!
Anyone need assistance with this, (I assume the 1100 applies as well), free free to contact me. bsnyder@neosllc.com.