Dear Eric, The issue was using a router as a TFTP server... Anyway, I tried to reproduce what you did using a Cisco 2513 and a workstation (the TFTP server) and it did not work! Looks like my router was smart enough to figure out I was copying junk :) Cheers, Pierre -----Original Message----- From: Erick B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:32 PM To: Pierre-Alex; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: TFTP Here's some pastes from a Cisco 800 when putting a non-Cisco 800 file on the flash. psychoticindustries.org#copy tftp flash Address or name of remote host []? pc Source filename []? geeks.gif Destination filename [geeks.gif]? Accessing tftp://pc/geeks.gif... Loading geeks.gif from 192.168.1.50 (via Ethernet0): !!!!!!!! [OK - 37820/74752 bytes] psychoticindustries.org#copy tftp flash Address or name of remote host [pc]? pc Source filename [geeks.gif]? c1600-ny-mz.121-4.bin Destination filename [c1600-ny-mz.121-4.bin]? Accessing tftp://pc/c1600-ny-mz.121-4.bin... Loading c1600-ny-mz.121-4.bin from 192.168.1.50 (via Ethernet0): !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <snipped ! lines> !!!!!!! [OK - 2975455/5950464 bytes] Directory of flash:/ 0 ---- 49096 May 01 1999 01:21:41 TinyROM-1.0(3) 1 -r-- 37820 <no date> geeks.gif 2 -r-- 2975455 <no date> c1600-ny-mz.121-4.bin 37 -r-x 3521656 Nov 11 2000 11:57:40 c800-oy6-mw.121-5.T.bin Yes. Thats my real domain name. --- Pierre-Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Through trial and error, I have found that you > cannot copy the image of a > Cisco2513 (c2500-js-l_112-17.bin) to the flash of a > Cisco 4000 (the TFTP > Server). (I have tried ....) However It looks will > get success with letting > the Cisco 4000 be a TFTP server for its own flash > files. > > My logic: before the 4000 can be a server for a > file, the file must exist in > flash. Yet you can only get a file in the flash if > it is a valid IOS file. > Below is what I did and what I got trying to upload > the Cisco2513 file to > the Cisco 4000 so it can be a TFTP server for other > Cisco 2500 routers. > > I went to the Cisco2513 and typed > > Cisco2513(config)#tftp-server flash > c2500-js-l_112-17.bin > > this made the Cisco2513 a TFTP server. Then I went > to the Cisco 4000 and > typed > > Cisco4000#copy tftp flash > Address or name of remote host []? 192.168.0.2 > Source filename []? c2500-js-l_112-17.bin > Destination filename [c2500-js-l_112-17.bin]? > Accessing > tftp://192.168.0.2/c2500-js-l_112-17.bin... > > the result: > > %Warning: File not a valid executable for this > system > %Error: This platform does not support relocatable > images. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]