AsusWRT-Merlin: Installing Entware into a CIFS folder
Sat 07 April 2018 by LrdShaperThis is taken from AsusWRT-Merlin Wiki and modified to work with CIFS shares. You can read what Entware is all about here. This assumes:
a Your router is 192.168.1.1 and is connected to the internet
b Samba is running on 192.168.1.100 with a share name of Share1
c We're going to mount \192.168.1.1\Share1 into /cifs1
1) SSH into your router and mount the CIFS share. Replace smbuser1 and smbuser1passwd with the credentials of the id that have rw permissions on the shared folder:
$ ssh admin@192.168.1.1
# mount \\\\192.168.1.100\\Share1 /cifs1 -o "username=smbuser1,password=smbuser1passwd"
2) Create directory opt under /cifs1, create a symlink to /tmp/opt and initialize Entware
# mkdir /cifs1/opt
# rm -fr /tmp/opt
# ln -s /cifs1/entware /tmp/opt
# wget -O - http://pkg.entware.net/binaries/mipsel/installer/installer.sh | sh
3) Configure Asuswrt-Merlin to automatically stop/start services:
# echo "#!/bin/sh" > /jffs/scripts/services-start
# echo "sleep 20" >> /jffs/scripts/services-start
# echo "/opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung start" >> /jffs/scripts/services-start
# echo "#!/bin/sh" > /jffs/scripts/services-stop
# echo "/opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung stop" >> /jffs/scripts/services-stop
# chmod a+rx /jffs/scripts/*
4) Now we need to edit /jffs/scripts/services-start so that our CIFS share is mounted and the Entware dirs are setup. Add the following lines between "sleep 20" and "/opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung start"
sleep 20
CIFS_SERVER=192.168.1.100
CIFS_SHARE=Share1
CIFS_MPOINT=/cifs1
CIFS_USER=smbuser1
CIFS_PASSWD=smbuser1passwd
mount \\\\${CIFS_SERVER}\\${CIFS_SHARE} ${CIFS_MPOINT} -o "username=${CIFS_USER},password=${CIFS_PASSWD}"
rm -fr /tmp/opt
ln -s /cifs1/entware /tmp/opt
/opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung start
That's it. You can start using opkg to install/upgrade/remove packages