PIX upgrading to 6.31

[sghezzi]

I have PIX 525 and I would like to upgrade from v. 6.1 to 6.31.

I have the following questions:

1- In loading the image from the tftp to flash I get the following error:

"WARNING: TFTP download incomplete!
Received 512 bytes.
No PIX image found in downloaded file.
Image not installed."

What does it mean?

2- How can I upgrade the PDM? I have now version 1.1, is this compatoble with PIX IOS 6.31?

3- Is this 6.31 stable? If I should downgrade back to v. 6.1 would be in trouble because I don't have the 6.1 image, where can I get it???

many thanks in advance

regards
Silvia

 

[netwrkr]

The error is because the PIX can't find a valid remote image. Make sure when you download from Cisco the image remains as a '.bin' file extension and that you have the correct path that that .bin file setup on your tftp server.

pdm v1.1 is not compatible with pix os 6.31. To upgrade PDM you must do a copy tftp flashdm -- take note the PDM version for pix os 6.3 is still in beta.

PIX OS 6.3 is still an ED release -- (Early Deployment) -- unless you require some of the features included in 6.3 you would be better off with the latest 6.2(x) for production use as it is a GD (General Deployment) release.