2.5.0 images for SG-3100 and XG-7100

victorhooi

Will there be 2.5.0 images for SG-3100 and XG-7100 available soon?

chrismacmahon

You should be able to see snapshots for any device at this point and time.

victorhooi

Hmm, maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

I'm going to:

https://snapshots.pfsense.org/amd64/pfSense_master/installer/

I was looking for something for a filename like pfSense-netgate-memstick-XG-7100-2.4.4-RELEASE-p2-amd64.img.gz, but for 2.5.0.

Or should I just be using a generic CE (Community Edition) memstick version, and installing that to my XG-7100? Any caveats there?

(Also - this is an aside - there used to be a portal where we could download images for official Netgate hardware. However, apparently that was phased out - would be neat if there was a replacement where we can always go to for the very latest images, instead of raising a support ticket each time to check =) ).

victorhooi

(Apologies, couldn't seem to find a way to edit my post)

Also - is there any way to go from 2.4.5 to 2.5.0 directly via an online update, versus installing via a snapshot on XG-7100?

chrismacmahon

Yes, Please use the online update feature, select the development branch and update from there.

Grimson

@chrismacmahon said in HEADS UP: Snapshots moving to pfSense 2.5.0 on FreeBSD 12, expect initial instability:

Yes, Please use the online update feature, select the development branch and update from there.

He is on 2.4.5 and apparently unwilling to read blog posts and the upgrade guide.

chpalmer

https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2-5-0-development-snapshots-now-available.html

victorhooi

@chrismacmahon Thanks for helping out! =)

My apologies - I had read the release notes and caveats, but I'd missed a single critical line on the blog post as well:

For anybody else reading - specifically, if you are on 2.4.5 snapshots, you need to run the following the shell to enable 2.5.0:

sed -i '' -e 's/11/12/g; s/armv6/armv7/g; s/hardfp/softfp/g' /usr/local/share/pfSense/pkg/repos/*devel*abi /usr/local/share/pfSense/pkg/repos/*devel*conf

Thanks again! Really excited to try this out =).

chrismacmahon

Do you have a copy of the stable firmware for the xg-7100 on hand before going down this path?

victorhooi

@chrismacmahon Yup - I do! =)

(I had to open a support ticket to request images for both the SG-3100 and XG-7100 units we have).

The update kept failing with size mismatch.

So I had to re-flash my SG-3100 from a factory 2.4.4-p2 image again, and run the update again. The update worked - but then I seem to have hit some issue with Unable to load dynamic library - I've flashed back to 2.4.4-p2, but it was good to try it and I'm happy to try it again in a few days maybe, if that dynamic library error is fixed. (This is a lab environment).