Convert IOS to CATos.

[brewer61]

I am trying to convert an IOS to CATos on a 4500 switch
the image is good (.bin file)
out the box it is in IOS, and will not boot to the ios, I have beenb told that I have to tell it to go to hybrid mode but have found no reference on how to do it
Please help

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[KiscoKid]

I know the following URL is for a cat6500 but hopefully it will apply to a 4500 also.

Hope this helps

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer...s700/products_tech_note09186a00801350b8.shtml

 

[vipergg]

You would have to indicate what supervisor you have . I'm not sure you can do this on the newer 4500's . I think they are IOS only . This is cisco's direction anyway , within 3 years i bet you won't see any more catos boxes . You'll notice anything new is strictly IOS .

 

[IPKONFIG]

Vipergg is correct. If it's a newer supervisor, you cannot go to hybrid but have to stay native. Why would you want to dummy down the switch by going hybrid anyway?

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[brewer61]

Thank you all, Yes it is a newer SUP card, teh reason I was going to dumb it down was standards at my work dictate 4500 switches get catos. Thanks for all the help I have submitted for the change

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.
- Pete Seeger

 

[IPKONFIG]

You can buy a Sup 2 from a used vendor and it will come with CatOS. I'm not sure if they are EOL with Cisco or not, but they cannot go to Native, they are CatOS only. Even a Sup 3 can be Hybrid. FYI

"I can picture a world without war. A world without hate. A world without fear. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
- Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

 

[vipergg]

Sup II's are end of life and even most of the software support , security , bug fixes are supposed to end in 3/06 if I remember right.