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.