Booting from a tar file

[beckerola]

Hi

I have to install a new version on a AP and i just downloaded a .tar file from Cisco.

My question is, can i boot directly from that tar file?

I never tryied this and before doing something wrong i want to be sure it will work. I read somewhere that maybe i have to uncompress the file firt but the AP seems it doesn't have this option.

Any help will be great, thanks

[normanmckeown]

If you want to load the software and reboot the access point immediately I have found this command to be useful:

archive download-sw /overwrite /force-reload tftp://x.x.x.x/Image Name

Where x.x.x.x is the address of the TFTP server where the image is stored and Image Name is the name of the tar file.

If you don't want the access point to reload immediated you can omit the /force-reload part.

Hope this helps.

Norman

[beckerola]

Thanks for your reply but i found a very good way to do this and it works fine. Here is the link to the page where tha procedure is:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps646/products_configuration_example09186a0080169623.shtml#concept10

Thanks and regards

[beckerola]

It didn't rebooted wellow it has a ap: prompt and can't start from the file. The thing is that the version is still there on the boot variable.

Strange...