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Catalyst 2924 formated ?? help

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I have a catalyst 2924 that i am using in my lab. i wanted to upgrade to the newset IOS which is c2900xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC10.bin from the old IOS which is c2900XL-hs-mz-112.8.11-SA6.bin. Some how i managed to screw this thing all up and i formated the nvram. Dumb move. Now when it boots up i get this:

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C2900XL Boot Loader (C2900-HBOOT-M) Version 11.2(8)SA3, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Compiled Fri 11-Sep-98 17:00 by rheaton
 starting...
Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:50:e2:ca:2b:80
Xmodem file system is available.
Initializing Flash...
flashfs[0]: 0 files, 1 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 1728000
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 1024
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 1726976
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 1 seconds.
...done Initializing Flash.

The system is unable to boot automatically because there
are no bootable files to boot.

switch:

When i try to use the copy command to copy the bin file back from TFTP it says this:

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switch: copy tftp://192.168.5.75/temp/c2900XL-hs-mz-112.8.11-SA6.bin Flash:/
tftp://192.168.5.75/temp/c2900XL-hs-mz-112.8.11-SA6.bin: permission denied
switch:
Can someone give me a hand on what i should do to get an IOS back onto this swich?
 
Make sure you have access to that location on your TFTP server....


Also... Just do flash: instead of flash:/
 
i do have access to the TFTP server, it is running localy on my computer as is the switch,

I also removed the / and get the same error

Code:
switch: copy tftp://192.168.5.75/temp/c2900XL-hs-mz-112.8.11-SA6.bin flash:
tftp://192.168.5.75/temp/c2900XL-hs-mz-112.8.11-SA6.bin: permission denied
switch:
The TFTP server worked with this switch before i formated it. How would i apply an ip address to this switch if i can get into an ios to use TFTP?? Is there another way to upload an IOS??
 
hi you can replase the software with a terminalprogram for exampel the hyperterminal from nt an than send the software with xmodem by the hyperterminal
 
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