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Chapter6 Maintaining the Cisco 7204 Copying a Bootable Image onto a Flash Memory Card
Caution The following formatting procedure erases all informa tion on t he Flash memo ry card. T o prev ent the loss
of important data that might be stored on a Flash memo ry ca rd , pro ceed ca re fully. If you want t o save
the data on a Flash memory card, copy the data to a server before you format the card.
Note The following procedure assumes you have already booted your Cisco 7204.
Use the following procedure to format a new Flash memory card:
Step1 Using the procedure in the section “Installing and Removing a Flash Memory Card” sect ion on page6-7
insert the Flash memory card into slot 0. (If slot 0 is not available, u se slot 1.)
Step2 Format the Flash memory card using the format slot0: (or format slot1:) command as follows:
Router# format slot0:
All sectors will be erased, proceed? [confirm]
Enter volume id (up to 30 characters): MyNewCard
Formatting sector 1
Format device slot0 completed
Router#
The new Flash memory card is now formatted and ready to use.
Note For this example, an 8-MB Flash memory card was used, and at th e line “Formatting sector,” the system
counted the card’s sectors backwards from 64 to 1 as it formatted them. For 16-MB Flash memory cards,
the system counts backwards from 128 to 1, and for 20-MB Flash memory cards, the system counts
backwards from 160 to 1.
Note For configuration information and descriptions of the commands use d in t his c hapt er, refer to the
Configuration Fundamentals Configuration Guide and the Configuration Fundamentals Comma nd
Reference.
Copying a Bootable Image onto a Flash Memory Card
Once you have formatted a new Flash memory card, you can copy a bootabl e image onto it. The copying
procedure assumes the following:
•You have an I/O controller with a good image in the onboard Flash SIMM so you can start the
Cisco 7204.
•The bootable image you want to copy to the Flash memory card exi sts on a T FTP se rver to whi ch
you have access (meaning you know its name and have connectivity to it), and at least one interface
is available over which you can access this server.