Flash & DRAM memory upgrade for a 2500 access server

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Upgrade 2500 access server memory

Just got some memory sticks in today for my AS2509-rj access server.
8 flash | 16 DRAM
Wow what a job to upgrade memory.
I popped the lid and took out my 8 flash and put in the new one in to check it, = good.
I did the same with the 16 DRAM, = good.
The flash has 2 memory banks, so I popped out the new 8,
and put in the original 8 in bank1, and the new 8 in bank 2.
I booted up the AS2509 to check the show version.

I see my
NVram reads good 14336k/2048,
but my
FLASH mem reads
8192k flash partition 1 (ReadONLY)
8192 flash partition 2 (Read/Write)

I google, WTF!@#$% partition (read only) partition 2 WTF! ,,, google did not like me say wtf!@#$, so i had to google some more!

This is what i had to do so I could do the IOS upgrade.

R2>ena
R2#conf t
R2(config)# config- registry 02x021
R2(config)#end
R2#reload
Yes
R2>(boot)ena
R2(boot)#show ver
R2(boot)(config)#erase flash eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
2 choose partition 2
R2(boot) (config)#no partition flash
R2(boot) (config)#exit
R2(boot)#conf t
R2(boot)(config)#config-register 0x2102
R2(boot)(config)#end
R2(boot)# sho ver
R2(boot)#reload
Yes
R2>ena
R2#conf t
R2(config)#copy tftp flash
R2(config)#192.168.242.14
R2(config)#c2500-is-l.123-26.bin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!

yeah the big monkey IOS for an Access server. No more dumb IOS for a 2500 router

I have been using the 2500 router, as an Access Server, for some time now but never flashed the correct IOS on it.
It was very buggy
Now I can build my config better I hope