Make room for an update
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I've got a small netgate running pfsense+, and can't get it to update....I think it's because it doesn't have enough memory.
- How do I make sure that is the reason for my problem?
- If that is the problem, how do I resolve it? Can I move the OS or other components to an attached USB drive or something?
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Do you see an error when you try to upgrade?
If it's running ZFS try removing old BEs from System > Boot Environments to free space.
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@stephenw10 I removed 1 boot environment (there was only 1 there besides the active one) and tried again. It didn't work. There isn't a helpful error. It gets through extracting boost-libs-1.85.0, unlocks it, then says "Failed".
Memory shows 74% of 958MiB used
Disk shows 1 G of 5.9 being used (it is zfs)
Currently running 23.09.1 and trying to go to 24.11
What are your thoughts? -
Ah, it's an 1100? You're probably hitting a RAM limit.
Try uninstalling any packages before upgrading. You can re-install them afterwards and the settings will be retained.
