Cisco has changed Software Center from an archive into a dynamic portal that contains only current and widely deployed releases (see Bulletin 2863). In the past, some customers used Software Center as an archive for Cisco IOS images instead of copying the Cisco IOS images in their network to their own external storage. If you used Software Center as an archive, you need to adopt the following process to copy Cisco images in your network to external storage.
Cisco IOS Software is typically stored in the Flash memory of the router. You copy IOS from Flash memory to an external TFTP or FTP server using the copy command.
- Show a list of IOS images in the current Flash directory.
dir [flash:[directory]]
- Copy the images from Flash to the TFTP server. Prompts for the server address and destination filename are displayed.
copy flash:[filename]tftp
- Store images on external storage media.
