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    Manual update of new nanoBSD image taking hours, is this normal?

    Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      Chucko
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      My current router is an Atom D525 with a 2GB drive and a VGA port, running a 2.0.3 (i386) nanoBSD image.

      I figured I would try the most recent 2.1 release candidate snapshot, so I downloaded the AMD64 version and started a manual update via the web GUI. That was 3-1/2 hours ago. Is it normal for the update to take so long?

      For a while I had a second web GUI running in another browser tab, but it stalled. Going in through the console, I don't see a lot happening via 'top', but the active partition has a lot less free space now. How can I tell what's going on? How will I know if the update failed?

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        xtra-james1
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        Maybe you shouldn't update an i386 version of the nanoBSD image with an AMD64 version?

        Не знаю, но да

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          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          Might have hit this:
          https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Upgrade_Guide#Changing_architecture_.2832_bit_to_64_bit_or_vice_versa.29_during_upgrade

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            Chucko
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            Apparently the upgrade never took. After 13 hours, I did a manual reboot. I'm trying again with the i386 release upgrade image.

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              Chucko
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              Release 2.1 upgrade (i386) was successful. I'm having some minor issues, will post them in an appropriate thread.

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