RouterBOARD cAP 2n - routeros upgrade

ofca · Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:55 am

So, could someone give me a step-by-step instructions about upgrading routeros on this thing?

ofca · Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:12 am

Eh. CrapInstall seems to be the only way to go. Normis, 32MB chips were 0.17 USD more expensive? On a side note, how many programming hours would adding interface selector to netinstall take?
Seriously. How long are you in the business now? 12 years? I expected that you got bored with pulling such stunts :/

Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:47 am

If you use the single-package install and also use the single-package to upgrade, it should work fine by simply uploading and rebooting. If you installed single packages, you could have installed more than it can handle. Try to uninstall some un-used packages.

ofca · Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:38 pm

I uninstalled every package except system. After that, there was about 4MB of free space. System package is 6950629 bytes long. I didn't install anything -- wanted to upgrade freshly unboxed devices.

ofca · Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:43 pm

On 6.20 after netinstall with routeros-mipsbe-6.20.npk...

free-memory: 44.5MiB
total-memory: 64.0MiB
free-hdd-space: 5.3MiB
total-hdd-space: 16.0MiB

Maybe implementing some kind of ram-drive upgrade is a good workaround here?

Thu Oct 30, 2014 9:37 am

RouterOS always upgrades through RAM. When you upload the package, it goes into RAM, doesn't matter how much space you have. Did you try it ?

joegoldman · Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:12 am

RouterOS always upgrades through RAM. When you upload the package, it goes into RAM, doesn't matter how much space you have. Did you try it ?

Even when uploading into files? Or only when hitting the 'Download and Upgrade' option? Does it auto-detect by .npk file extension and redirect to RAM? Thats interesting to know though I would have thought RAM would be flushed as part of the reboot process.

Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:13 am

RouterOS always upgrades through RAM. When you upload the package, it goes into RAM, doesn't matter how much space you have. Did you try it ?
Even when uploading into files? Or only when hitting the 'Download and Upgrade' option? Does it auto-detect by .npk file extension and redirect to RAM? Thats interesting to know though I would have thought RAM would be flushed as part of the reboot process.

Yes to both. This was designed to allow upgrades on small NAND devices.

ofca · Fri Oct 31, 2014 4:45 pm

I did a /system upgrade download. If there's some kind of upgrade-via-RAM magic going on already, then apparently you've forgot to fix /system upgrade to use it

ofca · Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:32 pm

Any idea on this? Did you confirm that there's problem with /system upgrade ?

Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:33 am

Try to open the Files section and you will see that the there is a flash directory which will store the files after the reboot. But if you upload a file outside that directory it uses the RAM drive.
The system upgrade tool saves the files in the RAM drive and uses those when upgrading the RouterOS.

ofca · Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:12 pm

C'mon, dudes...

Am I speaking chinese here?

Let me talk to you in pretty pictures then:

> /system ssh 10.255.255.8 user=admin


  MMM      MMM       KKK                          TTTTTTTTTTT      KKK
  MMMM    MMMM       KKK                          TTTTTTTTTTT      KKK
  MMM MMMM MMM  III  KKK  KKK  RRRRRR     OOOOOO      TTT     III  KKK  KKK
  MMM  MM  MMM  III  KKKKK     RRR  RRR  OOO  OOO     TTT     III  KKKKK
  MMM      MMM  III  KKK KKK   RRRRRR    OOO  OOO     TTT     III  KKK KKK
  MMM      MMM  III  KKK  KKK  RRR  RRR   OOOOOO      TTT     III  KKK  KKK

  MikroTik RouterOS 6.20 (c) 1999-2014       http://www.mikrotik.com/

[?]             Gives the list of available commands
command [?]     Gives help on the command and list of arguments

[Tab]           Completes the command/word. If the input is ambiguous,
                a second [Tab] gives possible options

/               Move up to base level
..              Move up one level
/command        Use command at the base level

[admin@SB-ScreenLeft-2G] > /system resource print
                   uptime: 1w8h38m23s
                  version: 6.20
               build-time: Oct/01/2014 10:06:12
              free-memory: 44.5MiB
             total-memory: 64.0MiB
                      cpu: MIPS 24Kc V7.4
                cpu-count: 1
            cpu-frequency: 400MHz
                 cpu-load: 0%
           free-hdd-space: 5.3MiB
          total-hdd-space: 16.0MiB
  write-sect-since-reboot: 159
         write-sect-total: 1284
               bad-blocks: 0%
        architecture-name: mipsbe
               board-name: RBcAP2n
[admin@SB-ScreenLeft-2G] > /system upgrade
[admin@SB-ScreenLeft-2G] /system upgrade> export
# jan/09/1970 09:33:41 by RouterOS 6.20
# software id = RC64-4A6Q
#
/system upgrade upgrade-package-source
add address=10.255.255.254 user=upgrade
[admin@SB-ScreenLeft-2G] /system upgrade> refresh
[admin@SB-ScreenLeft-2G] /system upgrade> print
 # SOURCE          NAME             VERSION      STATUS        COMPLETED
 0 10.255.255.254  routeros-mipsbe  6.21.1       available
 1 10.255.255.254  wireless-fp      6.21.1       available
[admin@SB-ScreenLeft-2G] /system upgrade> download 0
failure: not enough space on disk
[admin@SB-ScreenLeft-2G] /system upgrade> #FIX PLS KTHXBYE
[admin@SB-ScreenLeft-2G] /system upgrade>

So what did I do wrong? Maybe I should dance for a while before hitting enter?

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