Re: Erase flash: before copying?

From: Shawn Zandi (szmetal@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 10:06:11 ARST

So what was the answer to the myth?
anything interesting?

http://supportwiki.cisco.com/ViewWiki/index.php/A_prompt_to_erase_Flash_occurs_when_issuing_the_copy_running-config_startup-config_command

Regards,
Shawn

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Pavel Bykov <slidersv@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Pavel Bykov
> > Sent: Monday, 23 February 2009 8:26 PM
> > To: Evan Weston
> > Cc: ccielab
> > Subject: Re: Erase flash: before copying?
> >
> > 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"?
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Evan Weston <evan_weston@hotmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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