Upgrading PIX to 7.0

[nick25]

Hello people,

I've been having some trouble upgrading a PIX515E from 6.3 to 7.0. Hopefully someone can help me

The PIX is a failover unit. (Primary unit has 7.0 already)

For the primary unit, I remember I just had to download the pix701.bin image using the copy tftp flash command. But I tried the same thing for the failover and it's not working: the pix won't connect to the tftp server.

I wasn't sure what the problem was at this point, so I tried to update using Monitor mode. And it seemed to have worked. PIX would download the image from the tftp server and a show version would show that version 7 was running, but there was a problem when I had to copy the image to flash.

According to the guide, I had to do this:

"Once booted, enter enable mode and copy the same image over to the PIX again. This time use the copy tftp flash command."

I tried to do that, but again it wouldn't connect to the server. How come I can ping the server in monitor mode, but not in normal mode?

Sorry for the long description Any help would be appreciated.

 

[nick25]

Ok, I managed to update the FO unit to 7.0 . Just to clarify, the 2 units weren't connected together initially, so I connected them using the FO cable, booted primary unit, then booted 2nd, went in monitor mode and this time managed to download the image to /flash via copy tftp.

So I assume you need the 2 units to be connected? I'm a bit confused.