Sun’s M5000 Firmware Upgrade

Steps to updating flashimage on Sun M5000 servers:

Download latest flash image

http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=46fc425e

Download to usb drive.

I had to rename the file “[]” were put into the name on download.

I made a directory named images

Moved renamed file (FFXCP1071.tar.gz) into images directory.

(The usb port is on the XSCF card in rear of system)

Load image into system memory:

XSCF>getflashimage file:///media/usb_msd/images/FFXCP1071.tar.gz

Answer: Y (Loads image into memory)

Install image:

XSCF>flashupdate -c update -m xcp -s 1071

Answer: Y

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