From: miken (miken@sisna.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 03:44:35 GMT-3
I have used it successfully on the 2500 series routers. Make sure you have
enough RAM and keep in mind that mzmaker is a dos application and needs a
fat partition to run it.
HTH,
Mike Nygard
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From: <Dan.Thorson@seagate.com>
To: "Desimone, Aurelio" <ADesimone@refco.com>
Cc: "ccielab Groupstudy" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>; "'Tasuka Amano Hsu'"
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Subject: RE: Compress IOS image
> Interesting, cuz Cisco's www page says:
>
> Cisco routers that use a "run-from-Flash" architecture include the Cisco
> 1601-Cisco 1604 and the Cisco 2500 series. [snip] In the run-from-Flash
> architecture, the IOS cannot be compressed.
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> it's called mzmaker - its standard cisco compressed format its only for
> 2500
> routers (most other routers' images are already compressed.) But you have
> to have enough ram to decompress the image...
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> http://www.mcseco-op.com/mzmaker.htm
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tasuka Amano Hsu [mailto:tasuka@mac.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 3:08 AM
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> Hi,
> As I remeber somebody say the router could run a compressed IOS image
> for save the flash space, it can make a 10 or 12 MB image in a 8 MB
> flash, and the router will decompress at boot-up automatically , but it
> need take some longer time to boot the router up. Now problem is anyone
> known that IOS image compressed format , does zip or gzip or just UNIX
> compress -- suffix as .Z ?
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> Best Regards
> Tasuka
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