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Topic: Oh my goodness OpenWRT Rocks!! Howto create custom binary image

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Post #1
g18c
1 Jul 2007, 17:38

I got so anoyed with DD-WRT and was so restrictive, now DD-WRT is fine for normal use but if you like things a bit spicier then OpenWRT is the way to go! It works perfect and is solid and easily customisable, the filesystem is just great. I LOVE THIS OS. :3D

I plan to to create some script modifications on this box, however i need to roll out these scripts to many boxes (yes ive picked OpenWRT for the project :3D) and i dont want to add these to each one it would be nice if i could flash a custom image.

How hard would it be to create such a custom image? I will look on the wiki for instructions, but im interested to know if it is a nightmare and would be easier to simply flash the standard image and put the scripts on manually (after all i will need to telnet into each unit to set specific usernames , passwords and ip addresses etc).

Thanks for the help.

Chris

Post #2
nekmech
2 Jul 2007, 12:18

I got so anoyed with DD-WRT and was so restrictive, now DD-WRT is fine for normal use but if you like things a bit spicier then OpenWRT is the way to go! It works perfect and is solid and easily customisable, the filesystem is just great. I LOVE THIS OS. :3D

Selling ice to the eskimos?

(Last edited by nekmech on 2 Jul 2007, 12:19)

Post #3
macsat
2 Jul 2007, 12:30

From the wiki:

mount -o remount,ro /dev/mtdblock/4 /jffs
dd if=/dev/mtdblock/1 > /tmp/wrt-linux.trx
mount -o remount,rw /dev/mtdblock/4 /jffs

This will give you the file /tmp/wrt-linux.trx that you can flash to other - identical hardware - devices.

Post #4
g18c
5 Jul 2007, 14:22

i like it when things are that simple! cheers

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