On Jan 26, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
I was once given a command (or series of commands really) that
fetched, unpacked, and installed (or coppied files anyway) that let
me do an update from 1.0.1 to 1.2 RC4, but I’ve misplaced it. Could
someone provide that again? As best I recall, the output of fetch
was piped into tar and the output of that was directed at /, but I’m
not 100% sure and can’t afford to do this wrong J
I believe this is known as "option 13" on the console (or ssh login)
to recent pfSense.
For 1.0.1, download the update tarball (compressed) and put it on /tmp
on your system, then run the rc.firmware script as follows:
/etc/rc.firmware pfSenseupgrade /tmp/upgradefile.tgz
sit back, cross your fingers, and hope it doesn't croak and kill your
router. if you're on embedded, this may happen; if you're on full
install, it *should* work. but in the latter case, just use the web-
based upgrade.
