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Firmware Upgrade
- This guide will help you through the Firmware Upgrade Procedure. This applies to you if you are not yet running a version of Oleg's Firmware.
- If you are running an older version of Oleg's Firmware, I would also recommend un upgrade, otherwise, some of the features included in this guide may not work.
The latest version of oleg's firmware is WL-HDD-1.9.2.7
Chances are, you are probably running an Asus firmware such as the WL-HDD-1.2.3.4 firmware.
Partitions and Filesystem
- This guide will help you create partitions on your WL-HDD.
- These partitions will be formatted to the ext3 filesystem and a Wikipedia:Swap_space partition will be created.
- After completing this guide, you will have somewhere to install packages to.
- This guide must be completed before the ipkg packages system can be installed.
Install the IPKG package system
This guide will help you to install the ipkg package system on your WL-HDD.
This will enable you to install all the necessary packages on your WL-HDD. To see a complete list of the current packages available, click here
- Before completing this guide, you need to have created a filesystem on your WL-HDD.
- The IPKG package system is needed before any packages can be installed (such as SSH, FTP and Samba)
Automount your partitions
This guide will help you to set the WL-HDD so that it will automatically mount your partitions.
