3Com 8807, 8814, 8810 manual Using FTP, a Load Boot ROM program

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0. Reboot

Enter your choice(0-7):

Enter your choice(0-7): 6

Please input ’0’ or ’1’ (’0’:Boot from Flash, ’1’:Boot from CF card)

BootDev = 0

FlashFileName = Switch 8800 Family-Comware 310-R1212.app

Upgrading the Software If your terminal is connected to the switch over a network, you can load the Boot Using the CLI ROM and host programs remotely through the CLI using FTP. or TFTP

Using FTP

1Run the FTP server on a local PC, provided you have configured username and password and have set the correct file directory. Specify the PC’s IP address (for example, 10.10.110.1 in the example below).

2Log on to the switch using Telnet or through the Console port to send host program to the switch using FTP.

3Using the Get command, download the main boot file (SWITCH002.app in the example below), the active host program (SWITCH001.app in the example below), and the Boot ROM program (SWITCHbtm.btm in the example below.

<3Com> 10.19.110.1 Trying ...

Press CTRL+K to abort Connected.

220 WFTPD 2.0 service (by Texas Imperial Software) ready for new user User(none):8500

331 Give me your password, please Password:

230 Logged in successfully

[ftp] get SWITCH002.app SWITCH002.app

[ftp] get Switchbtm.btm Switchbtm.btm

[ftp] bye

n If the switch has two fabrics, you also can copy the host and Boot ROM program files to the standby Fabric.

4Specify the next boot program. If the switch has two fabrics, specify the load programs respectively for the active and standby fabrics (the current standby fabric is in slot 7 in the example below).

aLoad Boot ROM program

<3Com> boot bootrom flash:/Switchbtm.btm slot 6 <3Com> boot bootrom slot7#flash:/Switchbtm.btm slot 7

bLoad host program

<3Com> boot boot-loader flash:/SWITCH002.app <3Com>boot boot-loader slot7#flash:/SWITCH002.app

n	The URL form of the files in the standby fabric file system must start with
	“slot[No.]#flash:/”, where [No.] is the standby fabric number.
	<3Com> display boot-loader
	The app to boot of board 6 at the next time		is: flash:/SWITCH002.app
	The app to boot of board 6 at this time is:		flash:/SWITCH002.app
	The app to boot of board 7	at the next time	is: flash:/SWITCH002.app
	The app to boot of board 7	at this time is: flash:/SWITCH002.app
	<3Com> reboot