Van Tech Corner ： OpenWRT – x86 PC Installation – Live USB

In this video, we are going to install OpenWRT on x86 hardware, aka PC, server or laptop. This will give you the best performance thanks to the powerful hardware the x86 (Intel/AMD) architecture offer.
The steps is simple: create a live USB, connect all the cables and powering on the PC (with USB plugged in, of course)
It had been explained in the video about the images format, just to summary:
– combined-ext4 image – the partion can be resized to a larger one, but factory reset & fail safe mode is not supported.
– combined-squashfs – the partion is only 230 MB, resize is impossible. Factory reset and fail safe mode is supported.

Video timeframe:

00:00 – Introduction about OpenWRT on x86, build targets and images format
02:30 – Network interface cards supported by OpenWRT (with default build)
03:15 – Creating OpenWRT live USB with Rufus
04:13 – Install and boot up the PC with OpenWRT
05:02 – Basic OpenWRT setup on x86 PC
07:20 – Test and troubleshooting
08:08 – Disable IPv6 on OpenWRT on CLI
10:01 – Change OpenWRT LAN IP on CLI
11:30 – Final words

Useful links:
OpenWRT x86 installation guide – https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/openwrt_x86
OpenWRT firmware download – https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/
Rufus – https://rufus.ie/
OpenWRT images formats – https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/image.format

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