Comments on: How to Upgrade Cisco IOS in a Cisco Router or a Switch

By: Chris Angulo

Chris Angulo — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:14:45 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I treat my Cisco routers like my women. Well, maybe that doesn’t make sense, however, I jotted down your tips.

By: Charanjit Singh

Charanjit Singh — Fri, 28 May 2010 04:58:07 +0000

my i do upgrade the ios remotely after deleting the current image in the router

By: Ripal

Ripal — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:38:27 +0000

Thanks …. really help this explanation. I have upgrade IOS without any error.

Thanks Again.

By: ahmed

ahmed — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:40:38 +0000

flashfs[0]: 0 files, 1 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 32514048
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 1024
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 32513024
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 7 seconds.
…done Initializing Flash.
Boot Sector Filesystem (bs) installed, fsid: 3
done.
Loading “flash:c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5.bin”…flas
h:c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5.bin: no such file or dir
ectory

Error loading “flash:c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5/c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5.bin”

Interrupt within 5 seconds to abort boot process.
Boot process failed…

The system is unable to boot automatically. The BOOT
environment variable needs to be set to a bootable
image.

switch:

By: Chill

Chill — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:17:37 +0000

I erased the flash

and now I want to restaure the system

can you help me

By: Chill

Chill — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:52:25 +0000

Hi,

I tried as shows this output but if you can see at the end you’ll see where I’m blocked

BC-KIN-HQ-SW_LOG#sh flash

Directory of flash:/

2 -rwx 1304 Mar 12 1993 00:37:15 +01:00 vlan.dat
4 -rwx 7216 Mar 24 1993 07:43:19 +01:00 config.text
5 drwx 192 Mar 1 1993 01:06:46 +01:00 c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5
463 -rwx 5 Mar 24 1993 07:43:19 +01:00 private-config.text

15998976 bytes total (6936576 bytes free)

BC-KIN-HQ-SW_LOG#copy flash tftp
Source filename []? config.text
Address or name of remote host []? 10.10.100.23
Destination filename [config.text]?
!!!
7216 bytes copied in 0.025 secs (288640 bytes/sec)

BC-KIN-HQ-SW_LOG#copy flash tftp
Source filename [config.text]? vlan.dat
Address or name of remote host []? 10.10.100.23
Destination filename [vlan.dat]?
!!
1304 bytes copied in 0.008 secs (163000 bytes/sec)

BC-KIN-HQ-SW_LOG#copy flash tftp
Source filename [c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5.bin]? c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5
Address or name of remote host []? 10.10.100.23
Destination filename [c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5]?
%Error reading flash:c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5 (Is a directory)

My big problem is the last message. I can’t copy the ios from the flash to my computer. it says : %Error reading flash:c3560-ipbase-mz.122-35.SE5 (Is a directory)

Can U help me soleve this issue please

By: David

David — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:21:23 +0000

Thanks for this info, I was stuck just at the last hurdle of setting the new IOS to start after the reload. Wasnlt putting :/ beforee the .bin filename

Cheers

David

By: bunthan

bunthan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:11:22 +0000

it still post error message

By: Krishna

Krishna — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:03:24 +0000

Hi I am Bippin srivathsa, I am interested in formattin the flash, plz let me know if it is possible

By: sachin

sachin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:22:33 +0000

hello

Please send me How Download New Flash file and how to upgrade
flash file

plase send ..

in which side free download .bin flle of flash memory

thanks