Re: [foxboro] Upgrading Foxboro AW from P91, (Dell 2800), to P91,(Dell 2900), 2003 Server

  • From: "Boulay, Russ" <russ.boulay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:55:43 -0500

Tom,
 

A few things of note:

 

Was the registry part of this backup?

Many applications when loaded also get entries put into the registry.

If registry was part of the restore, then there are tons of hardware
related entries that were based on the 2800.

 

The nic cards in the 2800 are model AT 2701 PCI.. where the 2800 have AT
2711 pcie so can't move them anyway.

After your restore of c: and d: those drivers may be gone.

 

If you perform a day1 on the machine you won't get prompted for nic
selection.

If you perform a day0 on an already installed machine you will get
prompted for Nic selection/binding, but the selection does not remove
existing entries ..it will append. Also day0 on already committed
machine, will zero out checkpoint files and other I/A related files as
the install believes it is committing for the first time. So I would not
do either day0 or day1. 

 

I would try running the
utility...d:/usr/fox/system32/fox_drivers/winxp/free/xp_netcfg.exe

Syntax:    xp_netcfg.exe -i 151.128.152.(your IP)

This will bring up the NIC selection interface to bind I/A. (this is
what runs during day0 install to select Nics)

This will append entries, so if you ran it 7 times you would have 14
NICs listed.

This will be your only shot at getting the NICs and Miniport to bind..
(with luck)

After reboot..if box connects to Mesh and talks I/A then you survived
the binding.

 

Also newer 2900's require a script be run to install a new redl manager
or the Nics won't work correctly. 

That resided on C: partition and that willt be gone if you have restored
c:

 

anyway there are several other gotchas..

 

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From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of tjvandew@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu 2/12/2009 2:00 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Upgrading Foxboro AW from P91, (Dell 2800), to
P91,(Dell 2900), 2003 Server

Ron,
    I thought you would be the first to reply to my post to the list.  I
am not claiming victory yet but we were able to do a backup of the
C:(Windows), and D: (IA), partitions on a Dell 2800 P91 with a single
hard drive that was running Bios 1.5.0 and have restored it to a new 
Dell 2900 P91 with a Raid 1 with dual hard drives running Bios 2.5.0 or
something like that.  We used a trial download version of Symantec
Backup and Restore Ver.8.5.  Rather than backing up the whole hard drive
in one combined image we backed up the C: and D: partitions separately
and restored them separately to allow us to utilize different restore
options that come with Symantec Ver.8.5 restore for each partition.  We
backed up to a USB hard drive on the 2800 and then connected that USB
drive to the new 2900 for the restore.
    The new Symantec restore boot CD has a "Restore Anywhere" feature
that can be invoked during the restore setup and is supposed to be
designed to load without transferring all of the machine hardware
specific files/drivers.  On initial boot we let it try to boot all the
way up but it hung during the boot and finally bailed and rebooted
before it completed to boot up.  We decided to boot in the Safe Mode
without networking and we were able to get it to re-establish all of the
plug and play drivers.  Next we booted into the Safe Mode with
Networking and took care of the network adapters.  It shows a mini port
driver error and didn't correctly identify the Fiber NIC's as Allied
Telesyns but it was happy enough to reboot with no complaints except the
mini port.
    Tomorrow I plan to delete the Fiber NIC's and then re-install the
drivers for the Allied Telesysn's.  I will also delete the mini port and
then do a Day 0/1 on the box to see if it correctly binds.  All of the
applications and data files from the old 2800 are now on the C: and D:
partitions of the new 2900, so if this works and the fiber NIC's and
Mini port correctly re-install I think we have a shot at getting this
done without doing all of the specific application reloads and database
saves that you struggled through.  We decided not to pull the fiber
NIC's out of the old box because it is used for too many things to leave
it down while we play with it's replacement.
    I am not claiming victory yet but there is definitely hope for
success.  I will let everyone know if we are successful.
    Included below is information about Ver.8.5 Symantec.  It is worth a
watch to understand what it seems to do.

Cheers,
Tom VandeWater
Control Conversions, Inc.
Kapolei, HI

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