System image handling task list
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IPLink Software Configuration Guide
6 • System image handling
Comment lines must have a hash character # in column one and can appear anywhere in the script file. Com-
ment lines contain information for administrators or operators who maintain or use the script file.
The following example shows a script file used to download a system image and command line syntax defini-
tion file from a TFTP server.
# script file for system image download
# Patton Electronics Co. 2006-02-02
image.bin 1369474 21; ver 2803.1,2803.2;
cli.xml
+/flash/cli/spec.xml
*UÊDä
Note
The script file includes a 32-bit CRC on the last line, displayed as four char-
acters when seen in an ordinary text editor.
Do not delete
the line containing
the CRC entry or the download will fail!
You can download the script file with the
copy
command. The
copy
command source defines the TFTP path
to the script file and the target is set to use the script parser. After downloading the script file, the system image
file and command line syntax definition file download starts automatically.
Mode:
Administrator execution
Example:
Copy system images from a network server to the Flash memory
The following example shows how to download the driver software image file from the TFTP server at IP
address 172.16.36.80. The download is defined by a script file, which has to be downloaded first. After down-
loading the script file, the driver software image file is downloaded automatically.
IPLink>enable
IPLink#configure
IPLink(cfg)#copy tftp://172.16.36.80/2803/build22032/b flash:
Completed image download
Completed file download /flash/cli/spec.xml
IPLink(cfg)#
After the successful download, issue the
reload
command (in order to start the IPLink with the new software).
Copying driver software from a network server to Flash memory
Driver software images contain the driver software to be downloaded into hardware devices such as optional
interface cards.
Step
Command
Purpose
1
node(cfg)# copy tftp://
node-ip-address
/
b
flash:
Downloads the script file
b
from the TFTP
server at address
node-ip-address
and starts
the system image download process. This
progress is visualized with a counter, count-
ing up from 0 to 100% according to the
downloaded amount of the file size for each
file that needs to be downloaded.