Cisco 7960G Administrator's Manual page 64

How to Upgrade Your Cisco SIP IP Phone Firmware Image
Procedure
Determine your current firmware image release. (For instructions, see the
Step 1
IP Phone Firmware Image Version" section on page
To enable dual-booting, use an ASCII text editor such as vi, open the OS79XX.TXT dual-boot file that
Step 2
resides in the root directory of your TFTP server, and add the following:
P0S30203
If your current release is earlier than Release 2.3, upgrade to Release 2.3 as follows:
Step 3
From the Cisco.com website, do the following:
a.
1.
2.
Read the release notes and any readme.txt files. Unzip the archive and extract the binary image files
b.
to the root directory of the TFTP server.
Using an ASCII text editor such as vi, do the following:
c.
1.
2.
3.
Reinitialize each phone and verify that it does the following:
d.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
If your current release is between Release 2.3 and Release 5.2, upgrade to Release 5.3 as follows:
Step 4
Note
From the Cisco.com website listed in Step
a.
of your TFTP server: Release 5.3 ZIP archive, default configuration file, and release notes.
Read the release notes and any readme.txt files. Unzip the archive and extract the binary image files
b.
to the root directory of the TFTP server.
Using an ASCII text editor such as vi, do the following:
c.
1.
2.
Cisco SIP IP Phone Administrator Guide, Release 6.x and 7.x
4-4
Go to the Cisco.com SIP IP 7940/7960 phone software-download site at
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sip-ip-phone7960.
Download the following to the root directory of your TFTP server: Release 2.3 ZIP archive,
default configuration file, and release notes.
Open the default configuration file.
Update the image version specified in the image_version variable. The version name in the
image_version variable should match the version name (without the .sbn or .bin extension) of
the latest firmware image; in this case the version is POS30203.
Save the modified file to the TFTP server.
Contacts the TFTP server and requests its configuration files.
Compares the image defined in the file to the image that it has stored in flash memory.
If the images differ, downloads the image defined in the configuration file (which is stored in
the root directory on the TFTP server).
Programs that image into flash memory.
Reboots.
If your current release is Release 5.2, you need not upgrade to Release 5.3. Upgrade directly to
Release 6.0 or 6.1 as described in
Open the configuration file.
Update the image version specified in the image_version variable. The version name in the
image_version variable should match the version name (without the .sbn or .bin extension) of
the latest firmware image.
Chapter 4
4-3.)
Step 5 below.
3a above, download the following to the root directory
Managing Cisco SIP IP Phones
"How to View Your Cisco SIP