Apr
19
TechRepublic File System Video
ByThe TechRepublic site is one of the very best on the web for IT resources and an excellent source of learning materials. I came across a nice video presented by Bill Detwiler the other day called 10 Cisco IOS Router file management commands every Cisco admin should know. Most CCNA students I’ve taught in the last few years have experience of managing files and file systems through GUIs. Very few have used DOS or a Unix/Linux command line to do file management tasks and so they can struggle at first with managing files using IOS. The video includes commands such as:
- dir
- cd
- copy
- verify
- fsck
The video post also contains a link to a corresponding article by David Davis that covers each of the commands in a little more detail.
Popularity: 30% [?]
I guess when using an OS that is catering to the masses you have to dumb down the front end so more people can use it. My mum can use Windows but when I ask her to start a command prompt she suddenly goes all funny and forgets what a keyboard is …
When I stared using a computer I had MSDOS 6.x – good old commands, typing, and all that fun.
I feel old …
Nice site by the way .. clean and fresh looking.
Good luck with the studies – working on my CCNP personally then onto the CCIE ..
Thanks for the kind words on the site. It’s always surprising how long it can take to talk an end user through the process of opening up a command prompt and typing in ipconfig /all.
The people I work alongside have started a competition to see who can come up with the best phonetics to spell ipconfig.
I for Igloo
P for Ping Pong
C for……
Good luck with the CCNP. Feel free to keep us up to date on your progress and give feedback on the study materials you are using.