Instruction to have OpenWRT or LEDE on a X86 PC or Virtual Machine

openwrt-lede-on-pc-vm.sh

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# Instruction to have OpenWRT or LEDE on a X86 PC or Virtual Machine:
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# boot using DamnSmallLinux or similar:
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start
# see IP to connect using ssh
ifconfig
# set a password for root
su
passwd
# connect using SSH

# download gzipped image and decompress:
root@ttyp1[root]# cd /ramdisk/
root@ttyp1[ramdisk]# wget -q -O- http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/x86/generic/openwrt-15.05-x86-generic-combined-ext4.img.gz | gunzip > disk-image.img
root@ttyp1[ramdisk]# wget -q -O- http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/targets/x86/generic/lede-17.01.4-x86-generic-combined-ext4.img.gz | gunzip > disk-image.img

# now you will have the .img file
# Watch volumes
root@ttyp1[ramdisk]# fdisk -l

# Write image to disk
root@ttyp1[ramdisk]# dd if=disk-image.img of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=100
52+1 records in
52+1 records out

# Watch volumes again (note that now will have partitions)
root@ttyp1[ramdisk]# fdisk -l

# remove DamnSmallLinux and reboot