jma24
@bulldogdsl.com
| reply to grunteled
Re: Cisco PIX OS 7.0
Hi,
It is possible to run 7.0 on a Pix 506E. You can't however install ADSM, only the CLI.
My account manager at Cisco tells me that they are planning on doing a compressed image with a bootloader that should fit both PIX 7 and ADSM into 8Mb. Since together they are only ~10Mb that sounds feasible.
The Pix 506E is of course not flash upgradeable (not unless you're a dab hand with surface mount soldering at least).
Regards,
John |
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grunteled
Puffy And Prickly
Premium
join:2001-06-13
Kansas City, MO
clubs:
1 edit | Does that mean you can get it on the 506? I have the older 506 platform but it seems to be the same device just not 10/100 and no USB.
Hardware: PIX-506, 256 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 200 MHz
Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300, 8MB
BIOS Flash AT29C257 @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB |
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jma24
@bulldogdsl.com
| Hi,
I can't swear that it will work for you, because it's clearly *not* a supported configuration, so proceed at your own risk!
However PIX 7.0 will easily fit into 8Mb flash (the image is 5Mb so you have about 2.5Mb spare). On this principle I decided to give it a go for a laugh on a PIX that someone gave me.
By this principle it should be able to run on any of the older PIXs that support a memory upgrade past 64Mb. Given that most PIX techs worth their salt won't touch a GUI, I wonder why Cisco are so adamant that it won't work.
Warnings over, this is how to do it in very general terms.
1) Boot your pix *on the console* and login
2) Back up the FS to tftp
3) Format the filesystem, delete all the files on it
4) Reboot to monitor mode
5) tftp boot the Pix from an image (6.3, 7.0, makes no odds)
6) copy tftp://server/pix701.bin flash:image
7) reload
8) request a new 3DES activation key from Cisco (free).
Regards,
John |
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robinhoodis
join:2006-02-20
| how do you format the filesystem
I have tried
no flashfs
and
clear flashfs
after doing those commands I see the following, but I still see the filesystem restored after I reboot.
pixfirewall# clear flashfs
pixfirewall# show flashfs
flash file system: version:0 magic:0x0
file 0: origin: 0 length:0
file 1: origin: 0 length:0
file 2: origin: 0 length:0
file 3: origin: 0 length:0
file 4: origin: 0 length:0 |
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