Install PirateBox without a custom image

If you have a device, that has no shipped auto-installation, you can still install PirateBox with manual instructions.

• Manual Instructions for Zsun (Chaos Calmer and PirateBox 1.1 beta)

• You need a device with an USB or SDCard slot.
• Your device needs to be compatible to AttitudeAdjustment release from OpenWrt. The current trunk and BarrierBreaker release is not supported, because we can't guarantee it as working.
• Flash your device with OpenWrt refering to OpenWrt wiki.
• Make Internet-access available on your device.

• Login to your Box via SSH (use standard root/<your password>) or telnet (if root password not set). The IP depends on the way you made Internet available, i.e. 192.168.1.1
• Run the following command:

  echo "src/gz piratebox http://stable.openwrt.piratebox.de/all/packages" >> /etc/opkg.conf

• On ChaosCalmer, you need to disable signature checking for the repository, because we don't have signed repositories yet. Edith /etc/opkg.conf and remove the line option check_signature 1 or run.

  sed 's|option check_signature 1||g' -i /etc/opkg.conf
  

• Update packages:

  opkg update

• Install the extendRoot package:

  opkg install extendRoot

• Optional: If you have a different installation destination, like a SDCard, edit '/etc/ext.config' , and change the USB device option.
• Optional: If you are challenging your luck with using BreakingBarrier or ChaosCalmer OpenWrt version, you might need to do a reboot after this step.
• Initialize extendRoot:

  /etc/init.d/ext init

• Refresh ash profile:

  source /etc/profile

• Install the PirateBox package:

  opkg -d ext install extendRoot-piratebox

• Optional: Install UPNP Server and imageboard

  opkg -d ext install extendRoot-minidlna
  opkg -d ext install piratebox-mod-imageboard

• As a final step, you can reboot the device:

reboot

After you finished the setup, you can run the normal post-installation steps.