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1) You need a CCO account that's bound to some sort of SmartNET contract for support, in order to download IOS's.<br />
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2) Try show slot0. &nbsp;The image is probably on a CF card in the router.
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1) You need a CCO account that's bound to some sort of SmartNET contract for support, in order to download IOS's.

2) Try show slot0.  The image is probably on a CF card in the router.

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Hello everyone, i have two simple questions to ask,Question 1 one i have a 1720 router ( got free because person erased IOS by mistake) so it has no IOS, in rommon when you do the command dir you just get &nbsp;usage : dir &lt;device&gt;, hate to see router go to waste, so is there somewhere you can buy IOS when you need them, if so how to go about it?<br />
Question 2 , I know someone that has a 1720 router when you show flash it does not show you the IOS .bin file ,it shows nvram dir, is that normal, tried to copy to tftp server but had no luck? Thanks Mike
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Hello everyone, i have two simple questions to ask,Question 1 one i have a 1720 router ( got free because person erased IOS by mistake) so it has no IOS, in rommon when you do the command dir you just get  usage : dir <device>, hate to see router go to waste, so is there somewhere you can buy IOS when you need them, if so how to go about it?
Question 2 , I know someone that has a 1720 router when you show flash it does not show you the IOS .bin file ,it shows nvram dir, is that normal, tried to copy to tftp server but had no luck? Thanks Mike

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