On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> ok, i know i'm about to embarrass myself by asking this but it's
> been a while since i've manually installed a package and i've
> forgotten the details.
>
> freshly-flashed linksys WRT54GL with 8.09, scp'ed the appropriate
> "tcpdump" .ipk package file over into /tmp, now i just want to use
> "opkg" to install it, but the issue is that the rootfs is marked
> read-only and completely full:
>
> # df
> FS 1Ks Used Avail Use Mounted at
>
> rootfs 1600 1600 0 100% /
> /dev/root 1600 1600 0 100% /rom
> ...
> /dev/mtdblock3 1408 220 1188 16% /jffs
> mini-fo:/jffs 1600 1600 0 100% /
> #
>
> obviously(?), i want to install into the jffs filesystem, taking
> advantage of the overlay filesystem, but what's the proper way to do
> that? should i use the "-d" option of opkg, after adding the
> appropriate entry to /etc/opkg.conf?
>
> i also vaguely remember the notion of adding an "option
> overlay_root" directive to /etc/opkg.conf. so what's the right way to
> do this? thanks.
>
> rday
>
> p.s. i'm assuming that i'm trying to install into the writable free
> space in the jffs2 filesystem, i just need the right incantation that
> gets it there, at which point the overlay filesystem will kick in and
> tcpdump will appear to have been installed relative to the root,
> right?
never mind -- apparently, adding
option overlay_root /jffs
was the solution.
rday
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