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Re: Help installing Tailscale
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 4:56 am
by Lantis
Either format is ok.
Before you go too far down the config path though, you must not restore a 1.14 config onto 1.15. That’s basically the same as “preserving settings” and can lead to problems.
I would recommend a restore default configuration and then set up from scratch again.
Re: Help installing Tailscale
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 6:12 am
by se325919
Lantis wrote: ↑Tue Dec 09, 2025 4:56 am
Either format is ok.
Before you go too far down the config path though, you must not restore a 1.14 config onto 1.15. That’s basically the same as “preserving settings” and can lead to problems.
I would recommend a restore default configuration and then set up from scratch again.
Thankyou Lantis. I did not know that. I am at work now, but will do as you say when I get a chance. It should not take me too long to set it up from scratch again as there was only a few DHCP reservations in there. I like the Gargoyle side menu with main headings broken down into sub pages for configuration. Very user-friendly and easy to find what you need. The pages themselves are pretty clear so you can easily understand what the settings do.
Re: Help installing Tailscale
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 4:33 am
by se325919
Latest report.
As anyone following this thread will know, I have insufficient space to install Tailscale on the device itself, so will try to get it to install on a USB stick to see whether it will even work.
I plugged in a 2Gb USB stick which was formatted in FAT32. It had a few files on it but loads of free space. From the Plugins menu in the GUI I changed plug-in root to the USB stick. I then got a message that the format was not acceptable, and I would need to use the USB Storage page to format the stick in Ext4. I proceeded to do that, keeping the 25/75 split that was filled in by default. I was then able to change the plugin root back in the Plugins page.
Heading back to the PowerShell and SSH. I tried to install Tailscale using the first command shown on the OpenWRT guide page
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/ser ... =tailscale
But the result was still the same complaint about not enough free space. It appears that changing the plugin root in the GUI is not changing anything for the console, and I'm clueless how to specify
where to install things from the console.
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root@Gargoyle:~# opkg update
Downloading package list for openwrt_23.05-SNAPSHOT_routing source...
Package list for openwrt_23.05-SNAPSHOT_routing downloaded successfully.
Downloading package list for openwrt_23.05-SNAPSHOT_packages source...
Package list for openwrt_23.05-SNAPSHOT_packages downloaded successfully.
Downloading package list for gargoyle_kernel_specific source...
Package list for gargoyle_kernel_specific downloaded successfully.
Downloading package list for openwrt_23.05-SNAPSHOT_base source...
Package list for openwrt_23.05-SNAPSHOT_base downloaded successfully.
Downloading package list for openwrt_23.05-SNAPSHOT_telephony source...
Package list for openwrt_23.05-SNAPSHOT_telephony downloaded successfully.
Downloading package list for gargoyle source...
Package list for gargoyle downloaded successfully.
root@Gargoyle:~# opkg install tailscale
ERROR: Not enough space in destination root to install specified packages:
tailscale
Can anyone advise this lost learner?