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- From: C.Chaundy@its.unimelb.edu.au
- Subject: Re: Booting compressed images
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- Date: 16 Dec 1992 10:21:23 +1100
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- >Date: 15 Dec 1992 00:33:29 -0800
- >From: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
- >Subject: Booting compressed images
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- > Can a compressed image be loaded into Flash Memory and then be successfully
- > booted (software revision 9.0 or 9.1)?
- >
- >Only if the same compressed image could be netbooted by the ROMs.
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- I guess what I need to ask is whether an image (as FTP'ed from ftp.cisco.com),
- run through the standard Unix 'compress' utility and then TFTP'ed to Flash
- Memory can be booted (or is there some special format for compressed images)?
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- Regards, Chris Chaundy (Technical Manager, Networks)
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