Setting up Entware on asuswrt

[TeHashX]

I followed the guide from here but no go, the /opt is not mounted.
I tried creating a symlink with ln -s /mnt/sda1/asusware /opt ; ln -s /mnt/sda1/opt /opt without success
The only way is to install DM and than:
# wget http://wl500g-repo.googlecode.com/svn/ipkg/entware_install.sh
# sh ./entware_install.sh
There must be a shorter way to create a symlink to /opt

 

[Nerre]

Since the root is read-only /opt is already symlinked to /tmp/opt (at least on my RT-AC66U)

So, what you need to do is symlink /mnt/sda1/asusware to /tmp/opt.

I do it in the /jffs/scripts/post-mount script. This will create the symlink if it does not exist and it will lanch the upstart scripts if the mounted device is the optware device. (Note: I have labeled the partition "optware".)

#!/bin/sh
[ ! -e /tmp/opt ] && [ -e /mnt/optware ] && ln -s /mnt/optware /tmp/opt
sleep 2s
[ "$1" = "/tmp/mnt/optware" ] && /opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung start

 

[TeHashX]

Thanks Nerre, with this script it worked

#!/bin/sh
[ ! -e /tmp/opt ] && [ -e /mnt/sda1/asusware ] && ln -s /mnt/sda1/asusware /tmp/opt
sleep 2s
[ "$1" = "/tmp/mnt/sda1/asusware" ] && /opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung start

 

[Nerre]

The 2s sleep was put there because it seems as if symlinks took some time to be created. Not sure if that part could be improved. For me it just runs when I reboot the router so no big problem. I have a 5 s sleep in another script for similar purposes.