
Installation Manual
H3C SecPath F100-A Firewall
Chapter 5 Software Maintenance
5-1
Chapter 5 Software Maintenance
The firewall manages three types of files:
z
Boot ROM program files
z
Application program files
z
Configuration files
Software maintenance mainly involves upgrading/downloading Boot ROM/application
program files and uploading/downloading configuration files.
5.1 Boot Menu
This section introduces the Boot menu that you use in maintaining the software of the
firewall.
Set up a configuration environment (see Figure 4-1) and then boot the firewall. Press
<Ctrl+B> when the system prompts “Press Ctrl-B to enter Boot menu”. Then the system
displays:
Please input Boot ROM password :
Caution:
z
Press <Ctrl+B> within three seconds to access the Boot menu after the prompt
“Press Ctrl-B to Enter Boot menu...” appears. Otherwise, the system starts
decompressing the program.
z
If you want to access the Boot menu after the system starts decompressing the
program, you need to reboot the firewall.
Type the correct password and press <Enter> (If no Boot ROM password has been set,
just press <Enter>). The system accesses the Boot menu shown as follows:
I. Boot menu on the H3C SecPath F100-A firewall
Boot Menu:
1: Download application program with XMODEM
2: Download application program with NET
3: Display file in flash
4: Delete file from flash
5: Start up and ignore configuration
6: Enter debugging environment