[c-nsp] "Boot helper" or small IOS for Catalyst 3750

[Whisper]

Software is typically a hell of a lot easier to do than hardware, especially
when the hardware is fixed and is already in place. :)

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Deepak Jain <deepak at ai.net> wrote:

>
> Or a USB port if you don't want to write anything more advanced.
>
> Whisper wrote:
> > Even a very small basic boot image would help.
> >
> > Something that was 1MB in size, would save a lot of time
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Justin Shore <justin at justinshore.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Peter Rathlev wrote:
> >>> Hi Justin,
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 10:10 -0600, Justin Shore wrote:
> >>>> I don't believe xmodem transfer have been necessary beginning with
> the
> >>>> Cat 3550s or there abouts.  The last xmodem I had to do was on a
> 2900XL
> >>>> but nothing more recent than that.  rommon should be able to do TFTP
> >>>> transfers beginning with the 3550s.
> >>> Strange, I don't have any TFTP-related commands when I boot into
> ROMMON.
> >>> I tried after a reboot with 12.2(25)SEE2 and 12.2(35)SE5, just to see
> if
> >>> they'd upgrade the ROMMON.
> >> Hey Peter.  Guess what I'm doing this morning?  Xmodem recovery on a
> >> pair of switches that failed an upgrade with the archive command.  Woo
> >> hoo!  What a way to waste a morning.  I haven't done this in years.
> >>
> >> Come on Cisco, at least give us removable flash if we can't get a
> rommon
> >> with IP support...  :-(
> >>
> >> Justin
> >>
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