Erasing A Startup-Config File - ProCurve 6200yl Management And Configuration Manual

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If you wanted to experiment with configuration changes to the software
version in secondary flash, you could create and assign a separate startup-
config file for this purpose.
Figure 6-19. Example of Creating and Assigning a New Startup-Config File
You can also generate a new startup-config file by booting the switch from a
flash memory location from which you have erased the currently assigned
startup-config file. Refer to "Erasing a Startup-Config File" in the next section.

Erasing a Startup-Config File

You can erase any of the startup-config files in the switch's memory slots. In
some cases, erasing a file causes the switch to generate a new, default-
configuration file for the affected memory slot.
Syntax: erase < config < filename >> | startup-config >
config < filename >: This option erases the specified startup-
config file. If the specified file is not the currently active
startup-config file, then the file is simply deleted from the
memory slot it occupies. If the specified file is the currently
active startup-config file, then the switch creates a new,
default startup-config file with the same name as the erased
file, and boots using this file. (This new startup-config file
contains only the default configuration for the software
version used in the reboot.)
The first two commands copy the config1
startup-config file to config2, and then
make config2 the default startup-config
file for booting from secondary flash.