FTP'ing IOS

[th4roct]

I'm forced to FTP instead of TFTP an IOS to 2620 router. It is hanging at the point where it asks to confirm erase flash (I'm doing ctrl C to bypass that as I don't want to erase the flash... I want 2 IOSs in flash for now and YES there is enough memory to hold both). After it sits at the hung point for an extended period, if you look at the files in flash, you'll see a partial IOS file with invalid checksum. I also cannot delete that file using "del flash:filename". It says the file doesn't exist even though I can see it in flash. The existing IOS is 12.2.2T.

Need help with FTP'ing IOS and getting these partial files off!
thanks

 

[fluid11]

Can you back up the working IOS to your FTP server? If you can, do that, and then erase everything in flash, and then throw the working IOS image back on the router.

ChrisP

 

[th4roct]

My goal was to leave the existing IOS on the box, put the new one down, and then erase the old. This is a very remote box and I prefer to not risk having something go awry in the middle of a download w/o a working IOS on it. I don't want to have to tftpdnld from rommon.
As it is, I ended up getting a TFTP server on the local LAN and doing a standard install. I'm still not sure why the partial loads could not be taken off. Someone was in the location working on the server, so I let the flash be erased prior to the load and the files were gone. Weird.