If for some reasons after updating the Web-GUI is broken, but the device is still accessible via ssh, the device can be flashed via the command line.
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You should reboot the device right before executing following steps, to avoid having to much log files taking file space.
Do not reboot or power off the device, while running the ddflash.sh tool
Preparations:
If you are under Windows you need an SSH client, e.g. putty:
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Check if you can login to your device.
If you can log in to the device, create the following folder and change into it:
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mkdir -p /tmp/mchroot/tmp
cd /tmp/mchroot/tmp |
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Download one of the flash images files from:
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Getting the image files:
The image files are available from this location
http://www.beronet.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/berofix/ddflash_images/
In this example the flashimages-23.01.01-rc46.tar.gz is used, but you can use any image available in this folder.
Standard way, if wget works:
First check if you can fetch the file via wget, while in /tmp/mchroot/tmp folder:
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wget http://www.beronet.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/berofix/ddflash_images/flashimages-23.01.01-rc46.tar.gz |
Alternative way, if wget doesn’t work:
Download the the flash image file from the web to your PC:
With putty comes a command line tool called pscp. You need to open a cmd shell to use it.
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Now you can copy over the file to the beroNet gateway to the folder you created before.
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scp flashimages-23.01.01-rc46.tar.gz root@172.20.13.204:/tmp/mchroot/tmp |
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Checking the image location:
The flash file should have been copied over to the newly created folder.
In putty perform change into the folder and check if the file copy worked and extract the actual flash tool from the archive.
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