Upgrading via Shell (old)

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Upgrading via shell

NOTE: As of 1.2-BETA-2 a new console option (13) is available for remote upgrading, etc. See UpgradeGuide .. Hence this article being called (old). However, the instructions contained herein still work.

Sometimes an upgrade can go south for various reasons leaving your machine in an interesting state. If you ever encounter these problems this document may help bail you out.

• Login to pfSense's shell via ssh or login to the console and enter option 8

• Find the upgrade image you would like to use and fetch it down to the machine. You can also use SCP to copy the image to the firewall if you download it with another machine. If you have the url for the image in question do a:

fetch -o /tmp/firmware.tgz http://url.com/to_image.tgz

• Now issue the command (full path to upgrade firmware is required!):

/etc/rc.firmware pfSenseupgrade /tmp/firmware.tgz

• Wait a bit for the upgrade process to proceed.
• The machine should reboot after the upgrade. Hopefully all is well again.

This article is part of the HOWTO series.