Another one!
So this was also done by netbooting 18 series, then flashing the 19 series!
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Another win. It can be difficult to get newer versions onto some older devices due to onboard flash size and RAM size.
When doing a network boot you will load the entire OS into memory, including the file system containing base packages and config files. This often means that more RAM is used than a normal installation where only a portion of these aforementioned factors are resident in RAM.
It is for this reason that when you try flash a big image you simply can't as it won't fit into RAM for the flashing process. Therefore you need to start with a smaller image, flash it and then boot into it and flash the next image you want.
It's been very fun and I am enjoying the journey thus far with OpenWRT.
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Yes I've noticed that too. Which is why I replaced my 10 years old router last week with a newer model as it VLAN support and twice as much RAM etc. Only to discover now that OpenWRT supports the plain Asus GT-AX6000 router but not my ROG Rapture GT-AX6000.... bit sad as that was going to be my fallback plan. Especially as the router also does not support inter-VLAN routing like OpenWRT does.
Ah well a new challenge and I see there may be a way via changing the iptables routing from the CLI ;-)