On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Stan Ngure <stanngure@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Washington,

Hope you got a solution if not here is one to try.

The challenge is that Cisco flashcards are formated in FAT16. This is what you do:

Boot your router with the working flashcard.

Once done, and can access the normal global config mode, remove the working flashcard.

Insert the new flashcard, and issue the format flash command

Your card is now ready, and you may copy relevant files.

I'd hoped for an easier way but did not get that with a 2811. I have a PC that runs Windows XP installed with a card reader. It could mount the flash card, but could not open it as a file system, so I pretty much think the Cisco flash card was having some proprietary (to Cisco) FS. There must be such a thing, no?

What I did is almost as you've detailed, except that I shuttled all files into tftp server, removed the Cisco card, inserted the other card, formatted then brought in the files from the tftp server again.