Router – Installing IOS onto new FLASH

You will need to first install the flash module into the device.
Then run the following commands via the console port (rommon), to check your systems resources for the install.

rommon 1 > dev
rommon 2 > meminfo  

 Then to copy it from your tftp server…

rommon 3 > IP_ADDRESS=192.168.4.1    
rommon 4 > IP_SUBNET_MASK=255.255.255.0  
rommon 5 > DEFAULT_GATEWAY=192.168.4.100 
rommon 6 > TFTP_SERVER=172.16.1.88       
rommon 7 > TFTP_FILE=c2600-i-mz.123-4.bin

rommon 8 > tftpdnld                      

IP_ADDRESS: 192.168.4.1
IP_SUBNET_MASK: 255.255.255.0
DEFAULT_GATEWAY: 192.168.4.100
TFTP_SERVER: 172.16.1.88
TFTP_FILE: c2600-i-mz.122-12.bin

Invoke this command for disaster recovery only.
WARNING: all existing data in all partitions on flash will be lost!
Do you wish to continue? y/n: [n]: y
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Receiving c2600-i-mz.123-4.bin from 172.16.1.88 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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File reception completed.
Copying file c2600-i-mz.123-4.bin to flash.

Erasing flash at 0x60ac0100
program flash location 0x6052190

rommon 9 > dir flash:          
rommon 10 > confreg 0x2101   
rommon 11 > reset   

Rick Donato

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