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Prerequisites

It is assumed that:

You have installed Oleg's firmware.

Stupid-ftp has been disabled.

You have setup harddisk partitions and the extended filesystem is mounted on /opt

Installing IPKG

You need to have your hard disk partition mounted to /opt for this guide. Otherwise, replace all references to /opt with the location you mounted the hard drive to.

First unmount the partition if it has automounted, type:

df

If it has auto-mounted to /tmp/harddisk then you need to unmount it. Ensure stupid-ftp is disabled.

umount /tmp/harddisk

Now mount the harddisk

mount /dev/discs/disc0/part1 /opt

Now we are ready to continue!

First of all, we need to make a directory for IPKG

mkdir /opt/tmp
mkdir /opt/tmp/ipkg
ipkg.sh update
ipkg.sh install ipkg

If you get an error like

wget: wl500g.dyndns.org: Unknown host ipkg_download: ERROR: Failed to retrieve http://wl500g.dyndns.org/ipkg/Packages, returning ipkg_update: Error downloading http://wl500g.dyndns.org/ipkg/Packages to /opt/lib/ipkg/lists/wl500g

you may not have a valid /etc/resolv.conf, so find the nameserver your ISP provides (mine is 158.152.1.43), use it in this line

echo nameserver 158.152.1.43 > /etc/resolv.conf

and try to install ipkg again

This has now installed IPKG into its directory. Lets update the package list.

/opt/bin/ipkg update

Finally, we'll install nano, a handy little text editor.

/opt/bin/ipkg install nano

Next step is to configure automount of partitions on boot. Here is the link to that guide.