[nsp] 2500's running from ram

[Alvaro Reguly]

I did it, and worked ok, but I do not own a RFR image so get got back to 
RFF.

I didn't "compress" nor gziped anything, just loaded the image and reloaded.

I did sitck a 16mb standard-off-the-shelf EDO SIMM on the 1601.

No I do stop writing :)

Regards,

Alvaro

>>>Just run unix "compress" on the image (NOT "gzip"!) and store the
>>>> > resulting "c2500-...bin.Z" file in the flash.  The router will complain
>>>> > about "not recommended image type", and you'll run into massive problems
>>>> > if you don't have enough RAM...
>>>      
>>>
>>> 
>>> *If* you have enough RAM, it sounds like a good way to force the image to
>>> run from RAM. You become free to manipulate the contents of the flash
>>> while the box is running so you don't have to use the flash load helper
>>> (or the flash partition trick)
>>    
>>
>
>By the way, does anybody know if the same trick will work on 1600 (not
>1600R) series routers?
>
>Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
>