Upgrading IOS on a 7206 Need a lil Help

[intelwizrd]

I have a 7206VXR Router that we got some time ago and I just got a new IOS image for the router. I want to upgrade the current IOS but I don't want to screw it up. I have it on a TFTP server and also copied it to the router. "show ver" posted below as well as "dir" for the pcmcia slots.

I am guessing that the current IOS is loaded from slot0:120-7.T.bin. The image I want it to run is on slot1:c7200-is-mz.122-15.t.bin. Can I just copy c7200-is-mz.122-15.t.bin from slot1 to slot0 and overwrite 120-7.T.bin? Or do I delete 120-7.T.bin first then copy the file over. Or can I keep them both and tell the router to load the image from slot1?

Thanks for your help, it has been a while since I have played with IOS images and the file systems on routers.

router#show ver
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-IS-M), Version 12.0(7)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
Copyright (c) 1986-1999 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 07-Dec-99 16:36 by phanguye
Image text-base: 0x60008900, data-base: 0x613D8000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.0(19990210:195103) [12.0XE 105], DEVELOPMENT S
OFTWARE
BOOTFLASH: 7200 Software (C7200-BOOT-M), Version 12.0(10)S, EARLY DEPLOYMENT REL
EASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

router uptime is 2 weeks, 1 day, 8 hours, 50 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "slot0:120-7.T.bin"

cisco 7206VXR (NPE300) processor with 122880K/40960K bytes of memory.
R7000 CPU at 262Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 2048KB L3 Cache
6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.0

Last reset from power-on
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
Primary Rate ISDN software, Version 1.1.
3 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
9 Serial network interface(s)
8 Channelized T1/PRI port(s)
125K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

20480K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 128K).
20480K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 1 (Sector size 128K).
4096K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
Configuration register is 0x2102

router#

router#dir slot0:
Directory of slot0:/

1 -rw- 8117744 Feb 27 2001 15:43:51 120-7.T.bin

20578304 bytes total (12400952 bytes free)
router#dir slot1:
Directory of slot1:/

1 -rw- 16362336 Nov 10 2004 12:41:23 c7200-is-mz.122-15.t.bin

20578304 bytes total (4215840 bytes free)
router#



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Josh
CCNA, MCSE 2003(in progress)

 

[MTandSAV]

yes! "Or can I keep them both and tell the router to load the image from slot1?"

its possible to tell the router to boot the image from slot1 if that fails look for the other image from slot0:

We always make sure the image is also somewhere in flash and use the slot0 and slot1 as backup. Just in case somebody passes by and graps the card and you could be in trouble.


CCNA, CCNP..partly

 

[intelwizrd]

where is the IOS currently running from. does it load it into flash when it boots?

i guess i should ask, what would you recomend that i do?


thanks for your help.

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Josh
CCNA, MCSE 2003(in progress)

 

[vipergg]

If you want to load the new image just clear the current boot statements and put the new image location first then the old as backup. Usually it is boot system flash slot0:image name , and change slot0 to slot1: for the 2nd boot statement , then copy runn start . A lot of times these new images won't fit into bootflash anymore so you have to load them from the slot0 or 1 . You would have to do a dir bootflash and see if there is enough room in there , should probably do a squeeze command before doing that in case someone deleted a file but didn't recover the space with a squeeze command .