[nsp] Source of 7200 flash card?

[Jared Mauch]

	Upgrade your bootflash: image and you'll be good.

	Same goes for RSP/7500's

	- jared

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:49:26PM -0400, jlewis at lewis.org wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 
> > 	just get a compact flash and CF <-> PCMCIA adaptor.
> >
> > 	Cisco doesn't officially support it, but it'll work.
> 
> All the ones (7206's) I've seen can't access CF from the old/stripped down
> ROM IOS or rommon.  I like to keep one slot as a linear flash card
> (usually 16-20mb) with a failsafe IOS version, and then use a big CF in a
> PCMCIA converter for the "real" IOS.  That way, if anything 'happens' to
> the CF, you can get mostly up and running using the IOS on the flash
> card...at least enough to reformat the CF and tftp an image to it.
> 
> Otherwise, if you're doing comlex stuff (vlan trunking) or have interfaces
> unknown to ROM IOS, your router will be dead in the water if it reboots
> and something's happened to the CF card.
> 
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