Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire on Nostr: Another win. It can be difficult to get newer versions onto some older devices due to ...
Another win. It can be difficult to get newer versions onto some older devices due to onboard flash size and RAM size.
When doing a network boot you will load the entire OS into memory, including the file system containing base packages and config files. This often means that more RAM is used than a normal installation where only a portion of these aforementioned factors are resident in RAM.
It is for this reason that when you try flash a big image you simply can't as it won't fit into RAM for the flashing process. Therefore you need to start with a smaller image, flash it and then boot into it and flash the next image you want.
It's been very fun and I am enjoying the journey thus far with OpenWRT.
#openwrt
When doing a network boot you will load the entire OS into memory, including the file system containing base packages and config files. This often means that more RAM is used than a normal installation where only a portion of these aforementioned factors are resident in RAM.
It is for this reason that when you try flash a big image you simply can't as it won't fit into RAM for the flashing process. Therefore you need to start with a smaller image, flash it and then boot into it and flash the next image you want.
It's been very fun and I am enjoying the journey thus far with OpenWRT.
#openwrt
quoting nevent1q…c60qAnother one!
So this was also done by netbooting 18 series, then flashing the 19 series!
#openwrt #mikrotik
