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AppendixB Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images Working with Software Images
These sections contain this configuration information:
Image Location on the Switch, page B-25
File Format of Images on a Server or Cisco.com, page B-25
Copying Image Files By Using TFTP, pageB-26
Copying Image Files By Using FTP, pageB-29
Copying Image Files By Using RCP, pageB-34
Copying an Image File from One Stack Member to Another, page B-39
Note For a list of software images and the supported upgrade paths, see the release notes.
Image Location on the Switch
The Cisco IOS image is stored as a .bin file in a directory that shows the version number. A subdirectory
contains the files needed for web management. The image is stored on the system board flash memory
(flash:).
You can use the show version privileged EXEC command to see the software version that is currently
running on your switch. In the display, check the line that begins with System image file is... . It
shows the directory name in flash memory where the image is stored.
You can also use the dir filesystem: privileged EXEC command to see the directory names of other
software images that you might have stored in flash memory. You can use the archive download-sw
/directory privileged EXEC command to specify a directory once followed by a tar file or list of tar files
to be downloaded instead of specifying complete paths with each tar file..
File Format of Images on a Server or Cisco.com
Software images on a server or downloaded from Cisc o.c om ar e in a file f orm at, w hic h co ntai n s t hes e
files:
An info file, which serves as a table of contents for the file
One or more subdirectories containing other images and files, such as Cisco IOS images and web
management files
This example shows some of the information contained in the in fo file. Ta ble B- 3 provides additional
details about this information:
system_type:0x00000000:cbs31x0-universal-mz.122-40.EX1
image_family:CBS31x0
stacking_number:1.9
info_end:
version_suffix:universal-mz.122-40-EX1
version_directory:cbs31x0-universal-mz.122-40.EX1
image_system_type_id:0x00000000
image_name:cbs31x0-universal-mz.122-40.EX1.bin
ios_image_file_size:6398464
total_image_file_size:8133632
image_feature:IP|LAYER_3|PLUS|MIN_DRAM_MEG=128
image_family:CBS31x0
stacking_number:1.9