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Chapter 8 Maintaining the Internet Streamer CDS
Backup and Recovery Procedures
Option 7: Wipe Out Disks and Install .bin Image
Caution Option 7 erases the content from all disk drives in your device.
This option provides the preferred procedure for installing the Cisco CDS software. This option
performs the following steps:
1. Checks that flash memory is formatted to Cisco specifications.
If yes, continues to number 2.
If no, the following takes place:
a. Reformats the flash memory, which installs the Cisco file system.
b. Generates and installs a platform-specific cookie for the hardware.
2. Erases data from all drives.
3. Remanufactures the default Cisco file system layout on the disk.
4. Installs the flash memory component from the .bin image.
5. Installs the disk component from the .bin image.
Option 8: Exit and Reboot
This option reboots the device. Remove the USB CD-ROM drive before rebooting in order to boot from
flash memory.
Recovering the System Software
The Service Engine, Service Router, and CDSM have a resident rescue system image that is invoked
should the image in flash memory be corrupted. A corrupted system image can result from a power
failure that occurs while a system image is being written to flash memory. The rescue image can
download a system image to the main memory of the device and write it to flash memory.
Note The .sysimg file is located under the images folder on the Recovery CD-ROM. If you have upgraded the
CDS software, download the corresponding rescue CD iso image, copy to a CD and use the rescue iso
image.
To install a new system image using the rescue image, follow these steps:
Step 1 Download the system image file (*.sysimg) to a host that is running an FTP server.
Step 2 Establish a console connection to the device and open a terminal session.
Step 3 Reboot the device by toggling the power switch.
The rescue image dialog appears. The following example demonstrates how to interact with the rescue
dialog (user input is denoted by entries in bold typeface):
This is the rescue image. The purpose of this software is to let
you download and install a new system image onto your system's
boot flash device. This software has been invoked either manually
(if you entered `***' to the bootloader prompt) or has been
invoked by the bootloader if it discovered that your system image