Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions 7700 Manuel D’Utilisation

Loading Software

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The following section describes the procedure for loading new 
release software to your switch. Note that the procedure varies 
slightly for non-redundant (single CMM) and redundant (dual 
CMM) configurations. Follow the steps that apply to your 
system.

Note. For detailed information on loading software and 

working with directories in both non-redundant and redun-

dant CMM configurations, refer to the Switch Manage-

ment Guide.

1 Verify that all required image files from the new soft-
ware release are located on your computer’s hard drive or 
a locally-accessible server. 

2 Establish an FTP session to the switch, then access the 
/flash/working directory.

Note. Before attempting to establish an FTP session, be 

sure that you have first unlocked the FTP session type via 

the aaa authentication command. Otherwise, an FTP 

login error will occur. See 

 for more information. 

3 Using your FTP client or the CLI’s rm command, 
delete all .img files from the /flash/working directory. 
You can use the asterisk (*) wildcard to delete all .img 
files at once. For example:

-> rm working/*.img   

Important. Do not delete the boot.cfg file. Otherwise, 

any configuration changes you have saved will be lost. 

Also, do not delete files from the /flash/certified direc-

tory.

4 Using your FTP client, upload all required .img files 
from the new software release to the /flash/working direc-
tory.

boot.cfg
Fbase.img
Fos.img
Frelease.img
Feni.img
Additional 
required files

FTP