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Chapter 7: Manually Loading System Images
August 1997 Page 7-19
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Specify the Startup Configuration File Task List
To specify a startup configuration file, perform either the first two
tasks or the third task:
z
Download the Network Configuration File
z
Download the Host Configuration Fil
Download the Network Configuration File
To configure the Cisco IOS software to download a network configu
ration file from a server at startup:
1. Enter configuration mode from the terminal.
configure terminal
2. Enter the network configuration filename to download a file using
TFTP.
boot network tftp
filename
[
ip-address
]}
3. Enable the router to automatically load the network file upon re
start.
service config
4. To exit configuration mode, press <Ctrl-Z>.
1. Save the configuration file to your startup configuration. On most
platforms, this step saves the configuration to NVRAM.
copy running-config startup-config
For Step 2, if you do not specify a network configuration filename, th
Cisco IOS software uses the default filename network-confg. If you
omit the tftp keyword, the software assumes that you are using TFTP
to transfer the file and that the server whose IP address you specify
supports TFTP.
You can specify more than one network configuration file. The soft-
ware tries them in order until it loads one successfully. This procedur
can be useful for keeping files with different configuration information
loaded on a network server.
Download the Host Configuration File
To configure the Cisco IOS software to download a host configuration
file from a server at startup, complete the following tasks. Step 2 is op-
tional. If you do not specify a host configuration filename, the router
uses its own name to form a host configuration filename by converting