Manually updated 2.2.4 to 2.2.6 and picked the wrong platform - now what
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I had some pfSense installs that were on 2.2.4 and I wanted to get them up to 2.2.6 today. Turned out to be a little more confusing than I thought. First of all auto-update only wanted to serve me 2.3 so that was out the window as I was not ready for that yet. So I tried to find a URL to download the .tgz or .gz file for 2.2.6 that matched my platform.
I found that by going to https://www.pfsense.org/download/mirror.php?section=updates#mirrors and then browsing into the /old directory there were apparently the files I needed.
Problem is I had an APU2 unit that was running 2.2.4 nanobsd-4g and by mistake I used
https://nyifiles.pfsense.org/mirror/updates/old/pfSense-Full-Update-2.2.6-RELEASE-amd64.tgz…To update it. The update actually went through and the firewall rebooted itself and is back online but now is running "full" instead of nanobsd. Is that even possible? Or maybe I was mistaken and it had been running full somehow before?? Either way I came here to ask is there a way to "switch back" to nanobsd? I am worried about the CF card dying now and I am not local to this unit and getting there will not be easy.
thanks all for any help
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You can't switch from one to the other that way. If it accepted that file, it had to have already been running a full install.
APU would not likely have been running NanoBSD anyhow, though maybe on an SD card. It doesn't have CF.
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Oh thanks for your help. Thought that was the case but wasn't sure. Looks like there were a few APUs we had out there that must have been running SSDs and some others that were running nano off an SD card like you said. So that's where I got confused and because it's been so long since I worked on those I just lost track of it. The perils of aging!!
Thanks ;)
