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Cisco 7204 Installation and Configuration Guide

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Chapter6 Maintaining the Cisco 7204

Copying a Bootable Image onto a Flash Memory Card

Note To ensure access to a TFTP sever, you will need to configure at least one network interface

using the setup command facility. For instructions on using this procedure, refer to

Chapter 4, “Performing a Basic Configuration of the Cisco 7204.”

•You know the filename of the image you want you want to copy onto the Flash memory card.

Following is the procedure for copying a bootable file (called new.image in the examples) onto the Fl ash

memory card:

Step1 Boot the Cisco 7204 and allow it to initialize.

Step2 Insert an unformatted Flash memory card into slot 0 (use slot1 f slot 0 is not available) and format the

card using the procedure in the section “Formatting a New Flash Memory Card” section on page6-8.

Then proceed to Step 3.

Note If you have already formatted a Flash memory card, you can use it instead; however, you cannot

boot from a Flash memory card that was formatted on another type of system. You must reformat

the card to use it as a boot source. To avoid potential problems when inserting sp are Fl ash

memory cards in your Cisco 7204, we recommend that you reformat all of your Flash memor y

cards on a Cisco 7204 running one of the recommended Cisco IOS software releases listed in

Software Advisor. The section “Reformatting a Flash Memory Card” section on page6-12

contains instructions that explain how to reformat a F las h m em ory c ar d.

Step3 Copy the new image (new.image in the following example) to the Flash memory card and make this

image the default boot image. Then reboot the router u si ng t he fol lowing seri es o f co mm an ds:

Router> en

Password:

Router# copy tftp:new.image slot0:new.image

20575008 bytes available on device slot0, proceed? [confirm]

address or name of remote host [1.1.1.1]?

loading new.image from 1.1.1.1 (via Ethernet1/0):!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OK - 7799951/15599616 bytes]

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

Router#

Note In the preceding example, the exclamation points (!!!) appear as the file is downloaded, and the

“C” characters signify calculation of the checksum, which is a verification that the file has been

correctly downloaded to the Flash memory card.

Step4 Use the following series of commands to designate the file new.image (in the Flash memory card in

slot 0 ) as the default boot image :

Router# config terminal

Router(config)# no boot system

Router(config)# boot system flash slot0:new.image

Router(config)# ^z

Router# copy running-config startup-config

Router# reload