From: Nick Matthews (matthn@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 15:13:39 ARST
Thanks for the link Shawn, it's been updated.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Shawn Zandi <szmetal@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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