From: Rick (ccie_2003@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 23:22:44 GMT-3
Welll, I tried it and it didn't even ask me to erase flash, so I could not
say no. I checked everything else, and I can ping the TFTP server. I don't
know... Hopefully there is a sure fix out there!
Thanks,
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cassidy D. Smith" <csmith@plannetconsulting.com>
To: "'Rick'" <ccie_2003@hotmail.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 8:57 PM
Subject: RE: 2500 Flash problems Please help!
> Rick,
> I have had similar problems. In one case it was simply me hitting a key
> other then Y when the router was prompting me to erase the flash. If you
do
> that you won't even see the prompt, and it will try to copy to flash which
> won't work because it was not erased. So try the copy TFTP flash again,
be
> careful not to touch the keyboard.
> At other times, it was me forgetting to set an IP address or
default-gateway
> on the router, when my DHCP server was on a different subnet. And finally
I
> use Linux as my TFTP server, and I have at times had the wrong rights set
on
> the file.
>
> HTH
>
> Cassidy.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Rick
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:46 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Cc: Rick
> Subject: 2500 Flash problems Please help!
>
>
> 1st. I tried Cisco and tried to search the group study archives, but
> group-study was down and well Cisco might as well have been down because
> nothing would come up..
>
> Here is my problem, and I'm hoping somebody has the answer..
> I'm trying to upgrade to a new version of code and the router want let me
> erase the flash. It say read-only. And when I just try to copy tftp flash
it
> says not enough space. (that is because it must over-ride the old image
> first
> (or erase it). How do I get around this? You can look at the problems
below.
> I
> do have 16/16 in the router.
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
> r2#erase flash
> Erasing the flash filesystem will remove all files! Continue? [confirm]
> %dev_open: System flash not writable
> %Error erasing flash: (Device is read-only)
>
> r2#copy tftp flash
> **** NOTICE ****
> Flash load helper v1.0
> This process will accept the copy options and then terminate
> the current system image to use the ROM based image for the copy.
> Routing functionality will not be available during that time.
> If you are logged in via telnet, this connection will terminate.
> Users with console access can see the results of the copy operation.
> ---- ******** ----
> Proceed? [confirm]
> Address or name of remote host []? 192.168.1.69
> Source filename []? c2500-jk8s-l.122-1d.bin
> Destination filename [c2500-jk8s-l.122-1d.bin]?
>
> 00:03:49: %SYS-5-RELOAD: Reload requested
> %SYS-4-CONFIG_NEWER: Configurations from version 12.2 may not be correctly
> understood.
> %FR-5-DLCICHANGE: Interface Serial0 - DLCI 201 state changed to ACTIVE
> %FLH: c2500-jk8s-l.122-1d.bin from 192.168.1.69 to flash ...
>
> System flash directory:
> File Length Name/status
> 1 13124760 /c2500-is-l.122-4.T3.bin
> [13124824 bytes used, 3652392 available, 16777216 total]
> Accessing file 'c2500-jk8s-l.122-1d.bin' on 192.168.1.69...
> Loading c2500-jk8s-l.122-1d.bin from 192.168.1.69 (via Ethernet0): ! [OK]
>
> %Error: Image size exceeds free space
> %FLH: Flash download failed
> F3: 12432180+692548+912776 at 0x3000060
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