Upgrading IOS on a Catalyst 2900 XL ?

japlasma

I have tried the Cisco documentation on this switch using tftp, to no success.
Is it the same as upgrading IOS on a router? I'm a little bit confused here, please help!
The IOS file is in the root directory of my tftp server and I was able to copy the config.text file from flash to tftp- no problem there.
I was hoping to use the same copy tftp flash to copy the image file and upgrade that way, but it won't let me; that's when I did a search for how it should be done and was directed to Cisco's web site where I found the documentation on the 2900XL. When I applied the command :
2900XL#tar /x tftp://192.168.2.11/c2900xl-c3h2l9s-tar.120-5.WC17 flash, I got the error below

%Error opening tftp://192.168.2.11/c2900xl-c3h2l9s-tar.120-5.WC17 (No such file
or directory)
2900XL#

what could be the problem? Thanks for any help I would get.

bighornsheep

You probably forgot .bin at the end of your filename?

japlasma

bighornsheep wrote:

You probably forgot .bin at the end of your filename?

This was the combined .tar file that's supposed to auto upgrade bot the firmware and the IOS, so it has a .tar file at the end of the command(before the flash, of course), I did have it in there.

mgeorge

You're forgetting to add .tar flash: onto the end of the command.

2900XL#tar /x tftp://192.168.2.11/c2900xl-c3h2l9s-tar.120-5.WC17.tar flash:

Typically when i do it this way i erase the flash then do the extract, also make
sure ur vlan1 had an ip address in the same subnet as your tftp server,
and the port connecting the tftp server to the switch is in vlan1 (default vlan)

japlasma

mgeorge27 wrote:

You're forgetting to add .tar flash: onto the end of the command.

2900XL#tar /x tftp://192.168.2.11/c2900xl-c3h2l9s-tar.120-5.WC17.tar flash:

Typically when i do it this way i erase the flash then do the extract, also make
sure ur vlan1 had an ip address in the same subnet as your tftp server,
and the port connecting the tftp server to the switch is in vlan1 (default vlan)

The default admin VLAN1 is configured with the ip address 192.168.2.1, on the same subnet as the tftp sever as you suggested; also, I did type the full command(for some reason, I didn't show in my initial post above due to cut n paste issue):
2900XL#tar /x tftp://192.168.2.11/c2900xl-c3h2l9s-tar.120-5.WC17.tar flash - without the the colon at the end as you had it, but adding that colon at the end still outputs the same error.
I wonder if there is another way of doing this - I've already spent so many hours trying to get this thing going, I'd be willing to try anything.

japlasma

I didn't want to give up on this(start time:about 2 pm and finish time: 12.35 pm!)
Trouble is, I don't know what I did differently now besides the colon at the end of the command that mgeorge27 had suggested. Here is the output:

2900XL#tar /x tftp://192.168.2.11/c2900xl-c3h2s-tar.120-5.WC17.tar flash:

Loading c2900xl-c3h2s-tar.120-5.WC17.tar from 192.168.2.11 (via VLAN1): !

extracting c2900xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC17.bin (1811903 bytes)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!
extracting e2rb.bin (8192 bytes)!
html/ (directory)
extracting html/homepage.htm (3988 bytes)!
extracting html/not_supported.html (1392 bytes)!
extracting html/common.js (9449 bytes)!!
extracting html/cms_splash.gif (22152 bytes)!!!!
extracting html/cms_13.html (1211 bytes)!
extracting html/cluster.html (2823 bytes)
extracting html/Redirect.jar (4229 bytes)!
extracting html/c4v4_disc.sgz (9806 bytes)!!
extracting html/CMS.sgz (955595 bytes)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
extracting html/CiscoChartPanel.sgz (58784 bytes)!!!!!!!!!!!!
extracting html/cms_boot.jar (44484 bytes)!!!!!!!!!
extracting info (109 bytes)
extracting info.ver (109 bytes)
[OK - 2947072 bytes]

2900XL#

Thank you and may God bless you all.