So I found that AMI in AWS’s market place has a partition size of 1GB, regardless of how big the disk is. Alright, that’s a pain, my Dude installation is quite big and needs a bit more, so I was forced to look at the more complex process described in Creating your own CHR image.
I’ve found a couple of issues with this process so far:
- It says I need to have “AWS API tools installed.”. After much frustration I discovered it doesn’t mean the standard AWS CLI tools, but rather the obscure Amazone EC2 API Tools
- Maybe there’s been some significant updates to the tools, but the line
ec2-import-volume chr-6.34rc21.img -f raw -s 1 -b -o -w -z eu-west-1a
is quite broken. I found I needed
ec2-import-volume chr-6.37.3.img -f raw -b -O -W -o -w -z ap-southeast-2a --region ap-southeast-2 -d “Mikrotik CHR 6.37.3”
I’m currently waiting for that process to complete, I’ll update if I have any further issues.