Backfire on 520gu, no space!
Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 6:17 am
Hi all.
I am followed the wifi radio tutorial and can happily report that the instructions were great and I was able to get everything working.
However, I have attached a usb hub and would like to use a usb stick to store my music locally so that the router does not always need to stream radio. I was having trouble finding the partion of the usb stick so I tried to install fdisk. Unfortunately, MightyOhm did not have it in its repos and I figured that maybe I should just update the whole thing to the Openwrt - Backfire -10.03.1 so that I would have access to more packages. I had no issues following the same procedure with the newer firmware until I went to install mpd and the router told me that I was out of space. After a quick search I found that Backfire is bigger than the pre-compiled Kamikaze image MightyOhm hosts and I figured that was where my problem was.
So I thought that perhaps I should mount an additional usb stick and use it as the external source for mounting the file system or pivoting the overlay partition, allowing me to have plenty of room to install any and however many packages I wanted.
Does anyone have any experience/tips to offer while I am figuring out how to do this?
here are the wiki links I was reading:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extroot
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extro ... oot.theory
I am followed the wifi radio tutorial and can happily report that the instructions were great and I was able to get everything working.
However, I have attached a usb hub and would like to use a usb stick to store my music locally so that the router does not always need to stream radio. I was having trouble finding the partion of the usb stick so I tried to install fdisk. Unfortunately, MightyOhm did not have it in its repos and I figured that maybe I should just update the whole thing to the Openwrt - Backfire -10.03.1 so that I would have access to more packages. I had no issues following the same procedure with the newer firmware until I went to install mpd and the router told me that I was out of space. After a quick search I found that Backfire is bigger than the pre-compiled Kamikaze image MightyOhm hosts and I figured that was where my problem was.
So I thought that perhaps I should mount an additional usb stick and use it as the external source for mounting the file system or pivoting the overlay partition, allowing me to have plenty of room to install any and however many packages I wanted.
Does anyone have any experience/tips to offer while I am figuring out how to do this?
here are the wiki links I was reading:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extroot
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extro ... oot.theory