Upgrading from 6.1

[dbrowne]

Could someone please point me to the missing link referred to in the penultimate sentence of these upgrade instructions? Many thanks in advance.

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Upgrading from version 6.1 or earlier

Please ensure your system meets these requirements before upgrading:

Your USB flash device must have at least 128MB of free space.

If you have customized your network bridge name previously, it must be changed back to the default of 'br0' before upgrading.

VMs set to use a custom-named bridge will also need to be edited to point to the 'br0' prior to the upgrade.

Checking for sufficient free space

The upgrade process will check for this automatically, but if you wish to be proactive, you can review your boot device's free space under the Flash section on the Main tab of the web interface.

Checking your network bridge name

To see if you have a customized network bridge, open the Settings → Network Settings page of the web interface. If the bridge name is anything other than 'br0', change it back to 'br0' and click apply.

Checking your VM network bridge settings

If you found you have a custom-name for your network bridge and you also have VMs on the system, it is very likely that these VMs are also set to use the custom-named bridge and therefore they must be updated as well. To do this, you will need to perform the following steps after you have restored the default network bridge name:

Shutdown all VMs running on the system.

Edit each VM and turn on Advanced View mode.

Locate the network section and from the dropdown, select br0 and then click apply.

Once all VMs are set to use the 'br0' bridge, go to the Settings → Network Settings page, turn on Advanced View, and set the default network bridge on this page to also be 'br0' and click apply.

Your VMs should now be ready for use under the latest version.

Boot your server up and login to the web interface

Click the Plugins tab

Click the Install Plugin tab

Copy and paste the below link into the field and click install

Once the upgrade plugin has been installed, reboot your server

 

[Kilrah]

That's 8 years old, doubt you can still upgrade automatically.

I'd screenshot the main page with disk assignments, backup the entire flash drive, redo an install with the creator and restore the config folder, but I'd also expect some stuff to be broken afterwards, so much has changed since.

 

Also make sure your hardware is able to run the current version, particularly RAM.

Edited June 8 by Kilrah