Re: PM2 upgrade failed! desperate!!!

Roy (garlic@garlic.com)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:45:37 -0700

It would be nice if Livingston just PUBLISHED the check sums. Its not
hard to build a file
with the checksums

cksum * > checksums

dtrucken@zsassociates.com wrote:

> Yep, It happened to me too. Before I realized what happened, I called
> LE
> Tech support. They told me the unit was fried and sent a RMA unit.
> About
> an hour later it dawned on my what I did, but it was too late to
> cancel the
> RMA. Oh well. I guess it just contributes to higher costs for every
> customer of LE....
>
> There seems to be two fixes, one a different file extension as
> suggested
> below, and two a CHECK SUM check in the pminstall program BEFORE the
> image
> is sent to the PM3. Certainly the checksum of the non-binary image
> can't
> match the checksum of the binary image! If the pminstall program said
>
> something like: "Hey you idiot, you're trying to load an OS with a
> checksum
> that isn't valid." I would have saved lots of time, shipping costs,
> and
> frustration. My Cisco routers do this, and I'm very grateful for it.
>
> (I guess I can chalk it up to newbie hazing.)
>
> Dave
>
>