Just figured I’d put this here for future reference if I find myself needing to push an IOS + Web-Based Dev Mgr to a device via TFTP in the future:
- Please the IOS + Web-Base Dev Mgr file in the root of the TFTP server
- Connect to device and hop into enable mode
- Issue the following command:
archive tar /xtract tftp://<ip of tftp server>/<filename> flash:
e.g. archive tar /xtract tftp://192.168.0.21/c2960-lanbasek9-tar.150-2.SE1.tar flash: - The device will extract the contents of the tar file to flash: (if you don’t have enough space, you’ll need to delete some files/directories – probably old IOS files)
- Once finished, hop into configure mode (conf t), then issue the following command to tell the switch which IOS image to boot:
boot system flash:/<directory created in step 3>/<IOS image file extracted in step 3>
e.g. boot system flash:/c2960-lanbasek9-mz.150-2.SE1/c2960-lanbasek9-mz.150-2.SE1.bin - Then hop out of configure mod (end), then issue the reload command and viola!