Re: Erase flash: before copying?

From: Pavel Bykov (slidersv@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 09:34:15 ARST


Wow, that's great. Good stuff, Nick.
Another myth resolved.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Evan Weston <evan_weston@hotmail.com>wrote:

> The quiet option makes it work the way I want it to by the looks of it -
> thanks Nick! Now it doesn't prompt me to erase the flash (and have me
> accidentally erase my IOS when impatiently mashing enter ;-( ) and saves my
> template config. I'm curious to see what happens if the option survives "wr
> erase" I'll know when I finish off the lab I'm working on.
>
> It's not a space issue - the routers are identical models with identical
> flash size and IOS images and all have the same free space.
>
> Cheers all!
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> From experience older combinations of IOS/HW ask for that, while newer do
> not.
> It might be something from an old era of operating with flash fs (e.g. on
> 2500 you had to change confreg to be able to write to flash)
>
> But this is only suspicion, there might be some parameter like Nick pointed
> out, but I'm not sure if it's prompting that's the problem, because what
> will be the default response if it's "quiet"?
>
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Evan Weston <evan_weston@hotmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
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> >
> > I have a few 2811 routers in my lab. On two of them if I issue "copy
> start
> > flash:template.conf" it just copies but on the third one I get a dialogue
> > "Erase flash: before copying?" just curious as to where this is turned on
> > and off since some routers do it and others do not. Tried googling it and
> > people just say hit"n" so you don't erase your IOS.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Evan
> >
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