Upgrading from 1.2.2 to latest NanoBSD on Alix

kapara

I have an Alix 3E 2D3 with:

Version 1.2.2
built on Thu Jan 8 23:09:11 EST 2009
Platform embedded

I am planning to upgrade to latest NanoBSD and understand that I need to flash from scratch.

Can I restore all or parts of my configuration or do I need to recreate the configuration (Rules/1-to-1 NAT..etc)?

gloomrider

If you can get a BSD box (or something else that will mount UFS), you can tar up everything in your /cf partition and then restore it to the new /cf partition on your freshly flashed CF card. I would strongly recommend a second CF card just so you can go back to the old card if you have to. I have a triple-booting laptop that has XP, Fedora 11, & PC-BSD 7.1.1.

The steps I used:

1. Shut down the ALIX box
2. Open the case and remove the CF card
3. Attach the CF card to a card reader and attach the USB cable to a running PC-BSD instance.
4. PC-BSD should detect the volumes and allow you to browse them with dolphin
5. After you have found the /cf partition on the card, tar the entire contents to somewhere on the laptop


# cd /media/disk
# tar cf ~/cf.tar .

6. unmount ("umount" or the dolphin eject "button") the /cf partition from the laptop and remove your CF card from the reader
7 (Assuming you have already flashed a new card with the lastest snapshot of 1.2.3-RC3) insert the new card into the card reader
8 Again, with dolphin on PC-BSD, find the /cf partition
9 Now, delete the contents of this partition:


# cd /media/disk
# rm -rf *
# rm -rf .*

10 Now restore your config file, ssh keys, etc.


# tar xpf ~/cf.tar

11 Eject the /cf partition again, remove, reinstall into your ALIX box and boot!

dotdash

If you just want the config, a 1.2.2 config should restore just fine on a 1.2.3RC box.

Zorac

i went from 1.2.2 embedded to 1.2.3rc3 nano and use the web interface to back up my settings and restore them from the old to new version with no issues.

kapara

Happy to hear…. Gloomrider was makin me dizzy.. :-) Just teasing... thanks for the feedback though.. ;D

gloomrider

@kapara:

Happy to hear…. Gloomrider was makin me dizzy.. :-) Just teasing... thanks for the feedback though.. ;D

I like to preserve the RRD graphs ;D