Having troubles installing Entware on R7800

[minhvn]

First of all, I'm not an English native speaker so please bear with my grammar.

I'm in the process of installing Entware on my R7800 (running Voxel 1.0.2.64SF). I followed the tutorials but for some reason the installation still failed.

Here is what I did:

- Plugged in a 8GB USB Stick alongside my HDD
- Format with ext4:

mkfs.ext4 -L optware -O ^metadata_csum /dev/sda1

- Copy the entware installation file from the HDD to the USB Stick

root@R7800:/tmp/mnt/sdb1$ cp entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic.tar.gz ../sda1

- Untar

root@R7800:/tmp/mnt/sda1$ tar -xzf entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic.tar.gz

- Check the root directory of sda1:

root@R7800:/tmp/mnt/sda1$ ls
autorun
entware
entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic.tar.gz

- Finger crossed, let's reboot.
- Check if entware is installed

root@R7800:/$ ls -l /opt/*

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 855 Jan 1 1970 /opt/filelist

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Jan 1 1970 /opt/version


/opt/leafp2p:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 724936 Jan 1 1970 leafp2p


/opt/rcagent:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 232 Jan 1 1970 cgi

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 355008 Jan 1 1970 cgi_processor

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38060 Jan 1 1970 downloader

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11624 Jan 1 1970 nas_service

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 209644 Jan 1 1970 rcagentd

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 109 Jan 1 1970 run_server.sh

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 576 Jan 1 1970 scripts


/opt/remote:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88032 Jan 1 1970 remote

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21108 Jan 1 1970 run_remote


/opt/tmp:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 736 Apr 5 00:11 kamoj


/opt/xagent:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 240 Jan 1 1970 certs

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39708 Jan 1 1970 genie_handler

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 333 Jan 1 1970 run-xagent.sh

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80440 Jan 1 1970 xagent

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15764 Jan 1 1970 xagent_control

So... no sign of entware directories.

- Check the content of the usb stick again:

root@R7800:/$ cd /tmp/mnt/sda1
root@R7800:/tmp/mnt/sda1$ ls
lost+found

Seems like all the entware files are missing.

So... any solutions? I have to admit I'm a total noob on this so please let me know if I did something wrong. Your help is greatly apperciated.

 

[Voxel]

You are using two USB disks. So your "ls" output:

root@R7800:/tmp/mnt/sda1$ ls
autorun
entware
entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic.tar.gz

and there is no lost+found directory, right? So I guess it is something like NTFS or FAT.

Now:

root@R7800:/$ cd /tmp/mnt/sda1
root@R7800:/tmp/mnt/sda1$ ls
lost+found

So it is ext4 disk. Different disks.

I always suggest to use "-L optware" (volume label for your target partition and disk) to make sure that you do not have such a mix. I.e. "ls /mnt/optware" should point you proper disk.

Voxel.

 

[Voxel]

I.e. having two disks you cannot predict what will be mounted as /mnt/sda1 and what as /mnt/sdb1. But /mnt/optware (label) could help.

Voxel.

 

[minhvn]

Okay I figured out why my installation failed... and it's not related to the paths, they're all correct.

All I did is unplug the HDD before rebooting the router while leaving the USB stick intact... and it's all working now!

One last question though... will entware survive after a firmware upgrade... say the latest .65?

And thank you @Voxel for your amazing firmware and support!

 

[Voxel]

One last question though... will entware survive after a firmware upgrade... say the latest .65?

Flashing new firmware does not touch data on your external disks. So Entware installation should be kept.

Voxel.

 

[kamoj]

In general you should set these variables to get many Entware programs working ok:

export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin
export TERMINFO=/opt/share/terminfo
export TERM=vt100

You can add these lines to something executed at boot/start, e.g. one of these files:
/etc/profile
/etc/rc.local

PS
This will NOT survive a firmware upgrade