Upgrading very old FONERA OpenWrt-Kamikaze

Yes I know.. this is an old device with 8Mb of flash and 16Mb of RAM.. But why not? you are happy dropping old electronic devices or is better doing a better life?

So, I'm chosing Backfire 10.03 (Last recomended for 16Mb devices ¿?) to replace my old Kamikaze 8.09.
So I'm have a shell acces.
I tried this: https://openwrt.org/toh/fon/fonera#upgrading_openwrt_from_within_a_running_openwrt_installation
But of course mtd1 is so small:

dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00030000 00010000 "RedBoot"
mtd1: 000c0000 00010000 "vmlinux.bin.l7"
mtd2: 006f0000 00010000 "rootfs"
mtd3: 00590000 00010000 "rootfs_data"
mtd4: 0000f000 00010000 "FIS directory"
mtd5: 00001000 00010000 "RedBoot config"
mtd6: 00010000 00010000 "boardconfig"

Other way will be access to RedBoot but I don't know how I can do trhought shell.
fconfig command didn't work on kamikaze versions.

BR:
Alberto

Time to recycle it.

The kernel, 802.11 protocols, and third-party firmware of those releases have multiple, well-known, actively exploited security vulnerabilities.

16 MB of RAM is a show-stopper for support of currently maintained Linux

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Get a new router. This one is to old.