Error when install NPK file hapAC2: “upgrade failed, free 113 kB disk space for a (null)upgrade”
I encountered an issue while installing Dude on hapAC 2 with this notification: 'Upgrade failed, free 113 kB disk space for a (null) upgrade."
It seems like this is an issue with the RouterOS ARM, indicating insufficient memory to install Dude. However, you can still upgrade or downgrade RouterOS using a ~15MB file by dragging and dropping it onto the system and then rebooting.
What suggestions do you have to help me resolve this issue? Can I install NPK file using an USB stick ?
On devices with tiny flash (less than 64MB IIRC), the downloaded npk files are temporarily stored on RAM disk. Storing them on USB flash won’t help.
However ROS installed packages go directly on main flash and no other installation option is supported. When upgrading, ROS installer knows that files from previous ROS installation will be overwritten. When installing new package, the required space has to be actually available.
And I strongly advise against using all flash space for installing additional packages. Configuration manipulation (temporarily) requires some space and if that space is not available, then no config changes are possible (not even removing some config lines which should reduce space required for config).
Hello mkx,
I placed the npk file in the main flash as you suggested, but every time I reboot, my hapAC2 shows a notification like the one attached in this post. There isn’t enough memory to load this file, even though I can still upgrade or downgrade with RouterOS files up to around 14MB for the hapAC2 using this method.
Actually, I’m curious if the hapAC2 can run The Dude?
I wasn’t suggesting to place npk file to flash space, I was explaining why installation of additional package fails (because installed stuff goes to flash space).
In blunt words: don’t even think of installing anything beyond basic stuff on hAP ac2, its flash is simply to small.
