Installed Entware/Optware package on flash (without USB)

[snowman]

Just started my journey on open source firmware for SOHO router(DD-Wrt/OpenWrt).

Very glad I find this forum.
ASUSWRT Merlin seems to have best of both world between factory(wifi driver)/OpenSource(features).

Is it possible to installed Entware/Optware package on flash (without USB)?

This is on:
ASUS RT-AC78R running Firmware: 378.51

There are more than enough space for the packages I wanted to play with.
I want to setup a couple to play with; so if I can do it without USB would be icing on the cake.

Thanks
David

admin@RT-AC87R-xxxx:/tmp/home/root# df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 35 35 0 100% /
devtmpfs 125 0 125 0% /dev
tmpfs 125 9 116 7% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock4 63 2 61 3% /jffs

cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
31 0 512 mtdblock0
31 1 1536 mtdblock1
31 2 63488 mtdblock2
31 3 61847 mtdblock3
31 4 64256 mtdblock4
31 5 1280 mtdblock5

 

[L&LD]

Yes, you can install directly to the JFFS partition.

Just enable SSH and use any number of utilities to create or edit files on there.

 

[snowman]

Thanks!!
Can you elaborate a bit?
Which opkg binary should I use? and what about supporting libraries?

 

[snowman]

TTT.

How does the /opt work in asuswrt?

In Merlin Wiki and Asus website: It seems like USB is a hard requirement?

./entware_install_arm.sh
Info: Checking for prerequisites and creating folders...
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt': File exists
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/bin': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/etc': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/include': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/lib': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/sbin': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/share': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/tmp': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/usr': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/var': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/': No such file or directory
mkdir: can't create directory '/opt/': No such file or directory