[Sypher]

Hi,

Because i want to install freeradius and some other things on my DD-WRT v23 SP2 / VPN edition i tried installing the optware stuff.

I downloaded the optware-install.sh and executed it, but it gave me some errors about ldconfig.

[trey504]

symlink dont work with smbshares... but there might be a way around it, but I dont know I use mmc

and do you have /opt maped to /smb

[Sypher]

I have just re-enabled JFFS, without faking it but i'm not using it. I have /jffs remounted to /tmp/smbshare

The /opt is mounted to /jffs/opt (/tmp/smbshare/jffs/opt)

[Sypher]

Hmmz... Tried again but still the same problem

[oleo]

I suggest that you create the file /opt/bin/ln
with the following contents

[ult_avatar]

hey i have the same problem here with the GL,..

i tried all suggested here in the forum to work around with the smb mount, but i still get the same error message as sypher - even with the bash script to copy the files...

does anyone have another suggestion - besides a hardware hack ^^

[oleo]

If you have enough RAM, then you could bind /opt to /tmp/opt and install required basic packages. Then umount and copy /tmp/opt to samba share.

[ult_avatar]

thank you for the quick answer !

The question is, how much ram is required ?

my memory output on the webinterface says this

Memory
Total Available
13.8 MB / 16.0 MB
Free
1.1 MB / 13.8 MB
Used
12.7 MB / 13.8 MB
Buffers
1.6 MB / 12.7 MB
Cached
5.0 MB / 12.7 MB
Active
4.0 MB / 12.7 MB
Inactive
2.7 MB / 12.7 MB


and how exactly can i bind the free space in opt ?[/code]

[oleo]

Available is essentially free+cached; I assume that 16MB is tight. Maybe killing some services such as webinterface would help to free RAM teporarily;

Not exact commands would be

[fredmoro]

Hi!

I have the same errors as Sypher, when trying to install on a samba share. I've done all the mappings, and other tricks found on forums in this matter. I've tried several times, but nothing helped. I would like to install an ftp server on a wrt54gl 1.1 with ddwrt v23sp2.
Does anyone have idea what else can I try, to install the optware-install.sh on a samba share?

I tried to do the installs by hand, but also failed. Unfortunately I'm newbie in linux matters.

Awaiting ideas!
--F

[oleo]

manually way could be that you open ipk files with winrar and then just extract them on a shamba share. You need to extract at least uclibc-opt anv vsftpd. Taking care that symbolic links are replaced with real files.

[fredmoro]

Hi!
I tried that manual way, but ran into the same "can't link" errors.

Then I updated the router's firmware with dd-wrt v24 rc6.2 standard (seems much better than V23 sp2)
I tried again run that script to install on samba share, which is mounted to /jffs.
I've created a directory /jffs/opt mounted to /opt
Then i ran the script, which now made different error report, and seem it done more than before (more files appeared in the directories)

I think the two "(Permission denied)" errors below can cause the script to fail. How can I resolve that permission-problem? I hope if we can solve this,it will work...

The output was:

[Knasher]

You could always try installing the loop module and creating loopfs on the samba drive. Then if you format that as ext2 you can mount it to opt. Then you should be able to use symlinks and whatever else.

[m524c]

was a solution ever found to this problem? I am getting the exact same errors trying to load optware on a 600n using a USB drive.

[fredmoro]

Hi

Well, originally I wanted to install torrent and ftp on the router, but now I bought a WD mybook world, and I run these on the mybook. (That also has Linux OS, so it's easy to get a working torrent / ftp on that). It has a quite large system partition, so no tricks needed to install some optware on it.
I'm not a Linux guru, but it seems for me that he router allows install optware only on it's internal drives (flash memory, or an mmc card).

--F