Installation Instructions
- Download images:
- Download DebWrt firmware for your device ( use filename with a likewise name as the name of the firmware you would install for OpenWrt )
- Download DebWrt modules for your device
- Download DebWrt rootfs for your device
- Become root or use sudo
- Connect the USB Disk/Stick/Compact? Flash Card/SD Card
- Find out which device name it got ( dmesg )
- In this howto we assume the USB storage device is mounted on /dev/sdb. Replace /dev/sbd* in this howto with the actual device name.
- Partition /dev/sdb
- /dev/sdb1 - DEBWRT_ROOT - Linux - ext3 - Rest of available size
- /dev/sdb2 - DEBWRT_SWAP - Linux Swap - 128MB
- Create filesystems
mkfs.ext3 -L DEBWRT_ROOT /dev/sdb1 tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/sdb1 mkswap -L DEBWRT_SWAP /dev/sdb2
- Mount the ext3 root partition
mkdir -p /mnt/debwrt mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/debwrt
- Untar the downloaded Debian root filesystem to /mnt/debwrt (/dev/sdb1)
cd /mnt/debwrt tar xjvf ~/debwrt-rootfs-*.bz2
- Untar the downloaded modules to /mnt/debwrt (/dev/sdb1)
cd /mnt/debwrt tar xzvf ~/debwrt-modules-*.gz --no-same-owner
- Umount
umount /mnt/debwrt
- Flash your router with the DebWrt firmware using the OpenWrt flash instructions for your device
- Reboot the router
- See DebWrtRootfsImageInformation for default IP address, password, installed packages, etc.
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