OpenWRT – x86 PC – Install to Hard Drive
In this video, we are going to install OpenWRT on the hard drive of the PC, it can be either a PC, a server or even a laptop. This is how we do it:
– Boot up the PC with a live USB, it can be either CentOS, Ubuntu, Finnix or even WindowsPE.
– Download OpenWRT firmware and write the image to the hard disk
– Resize partion and enlarge the file system to use the whole HDD space.
*** In the video, I used combined-squashfs.img.gz. Please use combined-ext4.img.gz for the best compatibility ***
Video timeframe:
00:00 – Introduction about OpenWRT HDD installation
01:26 – Create a live USB Finnix to boot the PC
02:08 – PC router hardware walk through
02:43 – Boot up the PC with Finnix
03:35 – Download OpenWRT firmware and write the images to HDD
05:55 – Boot up the PC with OpenWRT
07:20 – Resize the disk partion to use the whole free space of the HDD (instead of 250 MB)
10:58 – Checks and final words
Useful links:
OpenWRT x86 Live boot USB – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DET3EMl6-RM
Download Finnix 12.0 – https://www.finnix.org/Finnix_120_release_notes
OpenWRT x86 installation guide – https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/openwrt_x86
OpenWRT firmware download – https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/targets/x86/64/
Rufus – https://rufus.ie/
OpenWRT images formats – https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/image.format
Check out other OpenWRT tutorials on my channel.
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