From: Barney Gaumer (bagaumer@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 14:20:53 GMT-3
Thanks for the link Chuck!!
Wow... Guess that method never caught on - lol
L8tr,
Barney
--- Charles Church <cchurch@wamnet.com> wrote:
>
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps233/products_maintenance_gu
> ide_chapter09186a008014b478.html#1485
>
> Never tried it though...
>
> Chuck Church
> CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Barney Gaumer
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:27 PM
> To: groupstudy@cconlinelabs.com; 'Carter, Lee';
> 'Roger McNeace';
> ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: 12.2 on 2500's
>
>
> I'll buy that!
>
> Think I was running 11.1 IP Plus and higher before I
> upgraded, but I also maxed out mem and flash before
> I
> switched to 12.2 E+ as well. Also think my roms
> were
> fairly new.
>
> One cool thing I noticed when I was working on the
> memory upgrades was one of my 2501's not only had
> two
> flash simm slots, it also had a pcmcia slot that was
> only accessible when the case was open - Haven't
> looked up what you can do with it yet but I'm
> thinking
> it's just more flash capacity?
>
> L8tr,
> Barney
> --- Tony Schaffran <groupstudy@cconlinelabs.com>
> wrote:
> > Some do and some don't. I believe it depends on
> > what version of IOS you
> > currently are running.
> >
> >
> > Tony Schaffran
> > Network Analyst
> > CCIE #11071
> > CCNP, CCNA, CCDA
> > NNCDS, NNCSS, CNE, MCSE
> >
> > http://www.cconlinelabs.com/
> > Your #1 choice for online cisco rack rentals.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com
> > [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Barney Gaumer
> > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:51 AM
> > To: Carter, Lee; 'Roger McNeace';
> > 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
> > Subject: RE: 12.2 on 2500's
> >
> > On a Cisco 2500 that is functioning properly with
> > max
> > mem/flash you do not need to change the confreg to
> > upgrade the image.
> >
> > when you enter the "copy tftp flash" command it
> will
> > ask for tftp server address then source image name
> > then destination image name. After that it will
> > verify that it can talk to the tftp server and
> that
> > the image is there. After that it will prompt to
> > erase the flash (which it does). Then it prompts
> > you
> > that it needs to reboot before the image is
> > uploaded.
> > The router reboots and the new image is copied
> from
> > the tftp server to flash, then another reboot.
> > System
> > confreg is 0x2102 still.
> >
> > I did 6 of these in a row and didn't need to
> change
> > the confreg on any of them.
> >
> > So... was this a case maybe where there was 8Mb
> > flash
> > and a compressed image?? or maybe a 10/half
> network
> > with tons of collisions bagging out the tftp
> copy??
> >
> > L8tr,
> > barney
> >
> > --- "Carter, Lee" <Lee.Carter@CommerceBank.com>
> > wrote:
> > > NO prob.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Roger McNeace
> > [mailto:rmcneace@terremark.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:01 AM
> > > To: 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
> > > Subject: RE: 12.2 on 2500's
> > >
> > >
> > > I tried changing the conf registers to 0x2101
> and
> > it
> > > worked. Thanks
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Carter, Lee
> > > [mailto:Lee.Carter@CommerceBank.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:45 AM
> > > To: 'Roger McNeace'; 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
> > > Subject: RE: 12.2 on 2500's
> > >
> > >
> > > Roger,
> > >
> > > If you post a 'show ver' I can tell you if the
> > > setting of the config
> > > register is necessary. I really depends on how
> > your
> > > flash comes up. If it
> > > comes up in read only mode or read-write mode.
> If
> > > you come up to read/write
> > > with the config-register set to the default
> > (0x2102)
> > > then you have no need
> > > to set the config-register to 0x2101.
> > >
> > > Remember all you are doing by changing the
> config
> > > register is telling the
> > > router to boot using RX Boot mode
> (Router(Boot)#)
> > > And it doesn't access the flash on startup
> > allowing
> > > access to that file
> > > system for erasing / writing (upgrading).
> > >
> > > The other key part of the show ver is if you
> have
> > 16
> > > megs of flash and that
> > > they show up as one flash partition.
> > >
> > > ****** Output of the Show ver ************
> > > cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision N) with
> > > 6144K/2048K bytes of memory.
> > > Processor board ID 08317545, with hardware
> > revision
> > > 00000001
> > > Bridging software.
> > > X.25 software, Version 2.0, NET2, BFE and GOSIP
> > > compliant.
> > > Basic Rate ISDN software, Version 1.0.
> > > 1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
> > > 2 Serial network interface(s)
> > > 1 ISDN Basic Rate interface(s)
> > > 32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
> > > 8192K bytes of processor board System flash
> (Read
> > > ONLY)
> > > ***** Output of the Show ver *************
> > >
> > > Notice the last line "8192K bytes of processor
> > board
> > > System flash (Read
> > > ONLY)"
> > > That read ONLY will stop us from upgrading the
> IOS
> > > on this router.
> > >
> > > Yes XMODEM will work if we break to ROMMON but
> > that
> > > is very slow and if you
> > > don't have enough memory you may have to start
> all
> > > over again. Big waste of
> > > time if you don't have enough memory.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Lee
>
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