

bin file for it to boot, it went into boot mode. This was successful so I reloaded the device but because there was no longer a. SW1# archive download-sw /overwrite /reload tftp://MyTFTPAddress/IOS.tar Cisco recommends using the archive download-sw command. I TFTP'd over the IOS.tar file instead of the IOS.bin file. tar file, hardware on the other hand does not. The web GUI installer requires you to use the. Then I moved on to SW1, I was going to upgrade this switch with TFTP. I upgraded SW2 first using the web GUI, the process was straight forward but very slow (took over 15 minutes). Nameįor the sake of learning, I wanted to upgrade one of the 3560's with the web GUI and one with the CLI using TFTP. I recently picked up two 3560's (WS-C3560-24PS) for my home CCNP Switch lab. You must know how many bytes your file is, and how many bytes you have free in flash.

Additionally, there is no error thrown in rommon mode that there wasn't sufficient space. Looking back, this seems very "no-duh" but I really wasn't expecting an 11MB file to fill up the entire system's flash memory, which again in hindsight, I should have because the devices were manufactured in 2006. Should I be able to transfer with Xmodem now?ĮDIT It was an issue with not having enough flash memory. tar file, the flash memory had 15,990,272 bytes available. Only 3,630,592 byes were available in flash and the file to be transferred is 11,776,000 bytes. TL:DR Xmodem transfer keeps failing at 30%.
