Router Installation and Configuration Guide

CHAPTER
6-1
Cisco 7204 Installation and Configuration Guide
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Maintaining the Cisco 7204
This chapter describes basic maintenance procedures for the Cisco 7204. The procedures are presented
in the following sections:
• Viewing Your System Configuration, page 6-1
• Replacing a Port Adapter or Service Adapter, page 6-3
• Installing and Removing a Flash Memory Card, page 6-7
• Formatting a New Flash Memory Card, page 6-8
• Copying a Bootable Image onto a Flash Memory Card, page 6-9
• Copying Bootable Images between Flash Memory Cards, page 6-11
• Reformatting a Flash Memory Card, page 6-12
• Replacing or Recovering a Lost Password, page 6-13
Note For procedures that explain the use of the PCMCIA Flash Disk, refer to the Using the Flash Disk
document .
For procedures that explain how to replace main, Flash, and ROM monitor memory in Cisco 7200 series
routers, refer to the Memory Replacement Instructions for the Network Processing Engine and
Input/Output Controller document.
The preceding documents are available on Cisco.com.
Viewing Your System Configuration
You can use the show version and the show diag commands to view information specific to the hardware
configuration of your Cisco 7204.
Use the show version (or show hardware) command to display the system hardware (the network
processing engine and number of interfaces installed), the software version, the names and sources of
configuration files, and the boot images. The following example shows the output from the show version
command:
router> sh version
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-J-M), Released Version 11.1(17)CA
Copyright (c) 1986-1996 by cisco Systems, Inc.
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