Need up to date IOS image for 2502 router

Hi Adil

Providing you have enough flash and memory on your 2502 to hold the

12.2 IOS you can copy the IOS image from one of your other routers.

You need a tftp server to download the image from your 2501 or 2520 and then upload to your 2502.

You can get one at

You could be really clever and setup one of your routers with the 12.2 image as a tftp server and download directly to your 2502

You can find info here

Good luck Beez

Thanks for the quick response. As it turns out I don't have the same amount of memory in the 2502 router (only 8MB): The router from which I was trying to copy its image to the 2502 router has 16 MB of memory. Plus, I noticed that while the 2502 router has 16 MB of flash memory ( the same as the 2501) the flash is partitioned (8MB read/write and

8MB read only)

Ques. # 1: Is there a way to un-partition the flash to combine it into 16MB of read/write flash.

Ques. # 2: Can anyone provide any guidance on increasing the RAM in the 2502 router?

I provided the show ver/show flash for both routers below:

2502 Router:

cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision D) with 8192K/2048K bytes of memory. Processor board ID 01890955, with hardware revision 00000000 Bridging software. SuperLAT software copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp). X.25 software, Version 2.0, NET2, BFE and GOSIP compliant. TN3270 Emulation software.

1 Token Ring/IEEE 802.5 interface(s) 2 Serial network interface(s) 32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory. 8192K bytes of processor board System flash partition 1 (Read/Write) 8192K bytes of processor board System flash partition 2 (Read ONLY)

Configuration register is 0x2102

System flash directory, partition 1: File Length Name/status 1 5570032 igs-j-l.103-8 [5570096 bytes used, 2818512 available, 8388608 total]

8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)

System flash directory, partition 2: File Length Name/status 1 8102652 c2500-js-l_112-16.bin [8102716 bytes used, 285892 available, 8388608 total]

8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)

2501 Router:

Adilrtr2 uptime is 9 minutes System returned to ROM by power-on System image file is "flash:c2500-jk8os-l.122-1d.bin"

cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision N) with 14336K/2048K bytes of memory. Processor board ID 17553874, with hardware revision 00000000 Bridging software. X.25 software, Version 3.0.0. SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp). TN3270 Emulation software.

1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) 2 Serial network interface(s) 32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory. 16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)

Configuration register is 0x2102

System flash directory: File Length Name/status 1 16505800 c2500-jk8os-l.122-1d.bin [16505864 bytes used, 271352 available, 16777216 total]

16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)

simply setup TFTPD services on the router having the 12 IOS (the router will act as a TFTP server) copy tftp flash on the onther one (make sure you have enough memory DRAM & flash ! )

You have 2 8mb flash cards. To combine them use the following command under config mode

partition flash 1 16

You will have to erase the second flash before doing this. I would recommend taking a backup before..

Just check ebay. Its a simple process. Just open up the box and exchange the RAM chip. Check out the documentation at cisco.

Beez

Thanks alot man. I appreciate the advice.

Adil