Solved: Problems upgrading Catalyst 3512-XL

jesusdamian · ‎05-31-2007

using c3500xl-c3h2s-tar.120-5.WC17.tar to update it.

I get this error

Determining the total flash size.

Extracting the info file from the tar image.

Reading the info file of the tar image file.

Actual free space 361472

Required Space 2923984

Software upgrade failed.

There is insufficient flash space for the new image.

Total free space required is 2923984 bytes.

Remove unwanted files from the flash and upgrade again.

the 3512 has a 3mb flash drive. After the switch is live, can I then delete everything in the flash to free up the entire 3MB to upgrade with?

is there a better way?

glen.grant · ‎06-01-2007

You will have to get rid of the existing file first . Then just copy your new file into flash.

Do not turn off the switch before getting a new image and boot statement inserted.

delete flash:c3500XL-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC3b.bin

also

delete flash:c3500XL-diag-mz-120-5.WC2a

You can do as above or try and follow cisco's too long explanation here .

http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2900xl_3500xl/release12.0_5_xw/OL091301.html#wp79025

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Hieu Cao · ‎05-31-2007

can you do a "sh flash".

the new image requires around 3MB to load into the flash, but you've only this much "361472" left.

You'll need to delete the existing image of the flash first, then tftp the new image over. I don't recommend you delete everything in the flash, just delete the old flash image will do the job.

Make sure you've a copy of the switch config before doing the ios upgrade, and don't forget to set the boot path for the new image.

glen.grant · ‎05-31-2007

Do a dir flash: and see what is in there , you can get rid of any existing .bin files just make sure you do not turn off the switch until you get the new image into flash . If you have an image in a directory you can delete the directory with the delete /force /recursive flash: command , this will wipe out everything in that image directory . If you don't plan to use a gui interface you can delete the .html files too. To run the switch you just need a single valid switch image in flash and the corresponding correct boot statement pointing to that image . A tar file takes a lot more space , if you don't need gui use the .bin file instead . If need be post the dir flash: output here and I can tell you what to delete.

jesusdamian · ‎05-31-2007

Directory of flash:/html/

8 -rwx 3994 Mar 01 1993 00:04:04 homepage.htm

9 -rwx 1392 Mar 01 1993 00:04:04 not_supported.html

10 -rwx 9111 Mar 01 1993 00:04:05 common.js

11 -rwx 22062 Mar 01 1993 00:04:05 cms_splash.gif

12 -rwx 911 Mar 01 1993 00:04:05 cms_12.html

13 -rwx 1010 Mar 01 1993 00:04:05 cms_13.html

14 -rwx 2823 Mar 01 1993 00:04:05 cluster.html

15 -rwx 1280813 Mar 01 1993 00:04:45 CMS.jar

16 -rwx 74146 Mar 01 1993 00:04:52 CiscoChartPanel.jar

17 -rwx 1958 Mar 01 1993 00:04:54 Redirect.jar

and in the root

2 -rwx 1751867 Mar 01 1993 00:04:04 c3500XL-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC3b.bin

3 -rwx 94370 Dec 18 2001 21:14:29 c3500XL-diag-mz-120-5.WC2a

4 -rwx 272 Jan 01 1970 00:00:22 env_vars

5 -rwx 109 Mar 01 1993 00:03:14 info

7 drwx 640 Mar 01 1993 00:04:52 html

18 -rwx 109 Mar 01 1993 00:04:54 info.ver

19 -rwx 998 Mar 01 1993 00:03:34 config.text

glen.grant · ‎06-01-2007