[cisco-voip] Largest CF that a 2821 / 2851 will take?

[David Sullivan]

cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net wrote:
> 
> On Nov 9, 2007 10:11 AM, Robert Kulagowski <rkulagow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've got a bunch of 2821/2851 routers which were all shipped with
>> the standard 64MB of CF. 
>> 
>> 64MB of CF isn't large enough to store two IOS images at the same
>> time, so our current practice is to delete the existing, then load
>> the new one.  So, there's a window where it's possible that you end
>> up with no IOS and a dead router.
>> 
In this situation it's worth leaving a copy of the corresponding
ip/ipbase image in the flash as well as the ipvoice/plus image if you
can (they are significantly smaller), so at least if you screw up an
install and you've a console you have some networking to have another go
rather than local tftp or console uploading.

David Sullivan
IT Services Systems Team
Barnet College
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