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- From: <henryc@oar.net>
- Subject: Re: Finding ROM version
- Message-ID: <726849703.14084@news.Colorado.EDU>
- Sender: news
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 07:56:42 -0500
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- >If your system has been booted from Flash EEPROM, is there a way to
- >find out what version system is resident in the ROMs in the system
- >(without reloading the system of course :-)?
-
- The best thing I've found to do is to give the load useful names,
- so when I do a "show flash" you can readily tell what's there. For
- example,
-
- gwdlp1>show flash
- 4096K bytes of flash memory on MC+ card (via MCI).
- Contains:
- /cisco/gs3-k.91-2.1 (1348032)
- /cisco/gs3-k.91-1.5 (1341168)
- [1504912/4194304 bytes free]
- gwdlp1>
-
- The alternative is give them symbolic names, but remember what they
- map to. For example,
-
- gwdlp1>show flash
- 4096K bytes of flash memory on MC+ card (via MCI).
- Contains:
- /cisco/test-9.1 (1348032)
- /cisco/production-9.1 (1341168)
- [1504912/4194304 bytes free]
- gwdlp1>
-
- This is really what our routers hold, and we remember that the
- loads map as shown above. This has the advantage that we don't have
- to change names all the time in assorted config files :-). It also
- has the disadvantage that you can't readily tell what the load is,
- as in the first example, except by mapping the load size on the tftp
- server to the load.
-
- Hope this helps,
- Henry
-