Cisco Systems IE 2000 Downloading an Image File By Using FTP

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Cisco IE 2000 Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Appendix A Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images
Working with Software Images
Downloading an Image File By Using FTP
You can download a new image file and overwrite the current image or keep the current image.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow Steps 1 through 7 to download a new image from an FTP
server and overwrite the existing image. To keep the current image, go to Step 7.
Command Purpose
Step 1 Verify that the FTP server is properly configured by
referring to the “Preparing to Download or Upload
a Configuration File By Using FTP” section on
page A-13.
Step 2 Log into the switch through the console port or a
Telnet session.
Step 3 configure terminal Enters global configuration mode.
This step is required only if you override the default remote
username or password (see Steps 4, 5, and 6).
Step 4 ip ftp username username (Optional) Changes the default remote username.
Step 5 ip ftp password password (Optional) Changes the default password.
Step 6 end Returns to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 7 archive download-sw /overwrite /reload
ftp:[[//username[:password]@location]/directory]
/image-name.tar
Downloads the image file from the FTP server to the switch,
and overwrite the current image.
• The /overwrite option overwrites the software image in
flash memory with the downloaded image .
• The /reload option reloads the system after downloading
the image unless the configuration has been changed and
not been saved.
• For //username[:password], specify the username and
password; these must be associated with an account on the
FTP server.
• For @location, specify the IP address of the FTP server.
• For directory/image-name.tar, specify the directory
(optional) and the image to download. Directory and
image names are case sensitive.