Showing The Boot Configuration; Booting The Css From A Network Drive - Cisco 11503 - CSS Content Services Switch Administration Manual

Chapter 2 Specifying the CSS Boot Configuration

Showing the Boot Configuration

Booting the CSS from a Network Drive

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Use the show boot-config command to display the boot configuration. For
example:
(config-boot)# show boot-config
!*********************** BOOT CONFIG ***********************
ip address 172.16.36.58
subnet mask 255.0.0.0
primary boot-file ap0720001
primary boot-type boot-via-disk
Network booting enables you to boot the CSS from a network drive using a .zip
file of the CSS software version located on www.cisco.com. When you configure
the CSS for network boot, the CSS must contain an operational disk (hard or
Flash).
Use your customer login and password to access www.cisco.com. From this
location, you can access the page listing the network boot .zip file versions of CSS
software. Click an image to download the software.
Be aware of the following network boot restrictions: a network boot is not
supported on UNIX workstations, and the War-FTP daemon is not supported for
network-booting the system software. In addition, network booting does not
support the use of core dumps from the CSS.
Perform a network boot if you want multiple CSSs to use the same boot image
while keeping their own configuration information. Provide an alternate path for
the location of the configuration information. This information must exist on the
same network file system as the boot image.
When using an alternate configuration path, make sure the path leads to a
directory containing the script, log, and information subdirectories. These
subdirectories must contain the files in the corresponding subdirectories in the
boot image. Create these subdirectories, then copy the files from the boot image.
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