For the seasoned Cisco Engineers - Flash Storage Upgrade
I was playing around (seriously) with the flash mem (is it called thus?) upgrade procedure on a Cisco 2811. Needed to learn how it is done. So I wanted to install a 128MB flash (not from Cisco) to replace the 64MB from Cisco. After go-ogle failing to show me the correct page, I resorted to a copy to tftp and back. I saw an option of copying to a flash disk (usbflash) but it couldn't read the 8GB one that I have (obviosuly due to the system limitations, iirc). Now just to get to know how others do it, what is the correct procedure? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube
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. Regards, Stan Ngure On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
I was playing around (seriously) with the flash mem (is it called thus?) upgrade procedure on a Cisco 2811. Needed to learn how it is done. So I wanted to install a 128MB flash (not from Cisco) to replace the 64MB from Cisco.
After go-ogle failing to show me the correct page, I resorted to a copy to tftp and back. I saw an option of copying to a flash disk (usbflash) but it couldn't read the 8GB one that I have (obviosuly due to the system limitations, iirc).
Now just to get to know how others do it, what is the correct procedure?
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube
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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. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube
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