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hci
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Memory Requirements

Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:17 pm

In future releases and v7 are boards with just 32mb going to no longer be supported? I have a number of RB951-2n units out with just 32mb.

I also have a hAP ac with 128mb of RAM but only 16mb of flash that appears to difficult if not impossible to update remotely to v7 without using netinstall.
 
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Re: Memory Requirements

Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:38 am

I think the upgrade package is copied to RAM during the flash process, I can confirm this on hap ac2, but it has 128mb of RAM so older devices with low RAM may get bricked and require Netinstall.
 
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Re: Memory Requirements

Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:41 am

v6 and v7 can be installed and upgraded on all devices. If you find any problem with storage space, it could mean your device has a hardware problem, or you have installed unsupported extra packages like Dude or User Manager (those should not be used on home routers)
 
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Re: Memory Requirements

Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:32 pm

I have an:
RouterBOARD 962UiGS-5HacT2HnT

It has these packages installed.
0 wireless 6.47.1
1 ppp 6.47.1
2 advanced-tools 6.47.1
3 system 6.47.1
4 dhcp 6.47.1
5 ipv6 6.47.1
6 security 6.47.1

When I copy "routeros-7.1beta1-mipsbe (1).npk" over to router and reboot I always get an error saying insufficient space and it does not install.
 
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Re: Memory Requirements

Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:44 pm

I just upgraded a hEX (16mb disk and 256mb ram) to v 7.1beta1 by changing the check for updates button and switching channel to development.

No problems (at least with the upgrade).
 
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Re: Memory Requirements

Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:02 am

Check the flash disk on the file system. Maybe there are files there that occupy the storage necessary for .npk to install.
/file print
 
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Re: Memory Requirements

Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:46 pm

This is with package download and update:

/log> print
09:37:19 system,error broken package advanced-tools-7.1beta1-mipsbe.npk
09:37:19 system,error broken package wireless-7.1beta1-mipsbe.npk
09:37:19 system,error broken package security-7.1beta1-mipsbe.npk
09:37:19 system,error broken package ppp-7.1beta1-mipsbe.npk
09:37:19 system,error broken package ipv6-7.1beta1-mipsbe.npk
09:37:19 system,error broken package dhcp-7.1beta1-mipsbe.npk
09:37:19 system,info installed system-7.1beta1
09:37:19 system,error not enough space for upgrade
09:37:19 system,info router rebooted



/file print
# NAME TYPE SIZE CREATION-TIME
0 flash disk dec/31/1969 19:00:02
1 flash/skins directory dec/31/1969 19:00:03


> system resource print
uptime: 5m14s
version: 6.47.1 (stable)
build-time: Jul/08/2020 12:34:22
free-memory: 40.9MiB
total-memory: 64.0MiB
cpu: MIPS 24Kc V7.4
cpu-count: 1
cpu-frequency: 650MHz
cpu-load: 4%
free-hdd-space: 3508.0KiB
total-hdd-space: 16.0MiB
write-sect-since-reboot: 1541
write-sect-total: 54145136
bad-blocks: 0%
architecture-name: mipsbe
board-name: hAP ac lite
platform: MikroTik

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