tbeltrans
New Around Here
New here, and just finished building the Asuswrt-Merlin firmware for my new Asus GT-BE98-Pro router that I just purchased today from the local Microcenter. I wanted to thank the folks who created and maintain this project. I used a multipass environment because it seemed much easier to set up and get a successful build in than some of the alternatives I tried. I did make a few deviations from the instructions I found that might be helpful for somebody else:
- for the multipass launch command line arguments, I used a disk of 64G and memory of 16G becasue I ran out of space during the build with the suggested 32G disk and 2G memory. I figured since I have the space, to just go big rather than experimenting by gradually increasing the size of disk and memory.
- instead of the suggested sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash, I used sudo ln -sf /bin/bash /bin/sh.
These are minor details, but may save somebody time if they are just getting started with this process. For context, my development environment is a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 12 Thinkpad that I bought a few months ago. It has never run Windows because I removed the supplied SSD and installed a 4TB in its place and then Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Studio (for music production). The environment for this project for me is multipass with Ubuntu 20.04 as recommended.
Again, I am truly grateful for this project. I know from experinece in my working life as an embedded developer (now retired) how much knowledge and work go into starting and maintaining a project such as this. At 72 years old and 12 years into retirement, it was fun to get back into some of this type of thing again.
Tony
- for the multipass launch command line arguments, I used a disk of 64G and memory of 16G becasue I ran out of space during the build with the suggested 32G disk and 2G memory. I figured since I have the space, to just go big rather than experimenting by gradually increasing the size of disk and memory.
- instead of the suggested sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash, I used sudo ln -sf /bin/bash /bin/sh.
These are minor details, but may save somebody time if they are just getting started with this process. For context, my development environment is a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 12 Thinkpad that I bought a few months ago. It has never run Windows because I removed the supplied SSD and installed a 4TB in its place and then Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Studio (for music production). The environment for this project for me is multipass with Ubuntu 20.04 as recommended.
Again, I am truly grateful for this project. I know from experinece in my working life as an embedded developer (now retired) how much knowledge and work go into starting and maintaining a project such as this. At 72 years old and 12 years into retirement, it was fun to get back into some of this type of thing again.
Tony
