This is a daft question I know, but I'm hoping someone can enlighten me to why I'm unable to do this.

Following the tutorial here https://wiki.onion.io/Tutorials/Using-USB-Storage-as-Rootfs the USB drive needs to be formatted as ext4.

However do that, with wrt you would normally install "e2fsprogs", however I'm unable to do that:

root@Omega-1XXX:~# opkg install e2fsprogs
Unknown package 'e2fsprogs'.
Collected errors:
opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package e2fsprogs.

So why no disk utilities and why are the blocked? Can anyone suggest an alternative?

Matt

Doing so works for me.

Note opkg update is required for the Omega to have a list of available packages and you will get the error you posted when you do **opkg install ** if it is not done. I am in the habit of always doing opkg update before an opkg install

@Matt-Ogborne May be a daft answer ( ), but did you do a opkg update before doing opkg install e2fsprogs?

Doing so works for me.

Howdy Kit,

Err I didn't!

Is that a required step?

I've just formatted the drive using the Raspberry Pi 3 that arrived this morning using this app:

sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility

And she's literally just mounted OK. Happy & days!

Matt

I wish I knew about that about 2 hours ago

Matt

• opkg can provide quite a lot of useful information and facilities. Try the command opkg on its own without any parameters to get a summary of its commands and options.

• Good luck with the rootfs stuff. I use it all the time with a 32GByte USB thumb drive. I also use the USB to provide swap space for the Omega which gives it more virtual memory. I need all this to run Java code under the jamvm Java Virtual Machine - which works well.

Matt

PS. Appreciate the insight!

@Matt-Ogborne All good. Also, all the tutorials that Omega people have produced can be found on the Onion Wiki at https://wiki.onion.io/Home

Yep, I've spotted those & just added my own as well

Not sure if this link will work as I'm not that used to using git-hub https://github.com/moggiex/wiki/blob/c0cdeb157885021f0669aacf6179ddcc35159634/Tutorials/PHP-GPIO-Example.md

Matt

im less fortunate than you guys :

As my screenshot shows : i do opkg update, it seems to work... but then e2fsprogs is still an unknown package (it worked for the 2 other packages kmod-usb-storage-extras and kmod-fs-ext4)

anyone could help me ? this thing is starting to drive me crazy.
after having the problem with the signature file now i stumble upon THIS problem while following the tutorial (im on a Omega2+)

thanks

1. Run:

   opkg list
   

to see if there is a package with a similar name is known about. It maybe named differently

1. Edit /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf and un-comment the commented repositories then run:

   opkg update
   opkg list
   

   again
   Some of the packages may be in repositories that are not enabled by default

https://community.onion.io/topic/1234/is-block-mount-gone-where-is-block/3

In the file /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf , uncomment (delete the #) these lines:

src/gz reboot_core http://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7688/packages
src/gz reboot_base http://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/base

reboot_core contains block-mount
reboot_base contains e2fsprogs

Then run opkg update and try installing.

I had the same issue, on Omega2, found this recent post that helped with block-mount:

https://community.onion.io/topic/1234/is-block-mount-gone-where-is-block/3

In the file /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf , uncomment (delete the #) these lines:

src/gz reboot_core http://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7688/packages
src/gz reboot_base http://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/base

reboot_core contains block-mount
reboot_base contains e2fsprogs

Then run opkg update and try installing.

thanks a lot it solved the problem.
in the past i uncommented other stuff in this file but not the ones you mention.
Why the hell for the sake of new users this opkg update does not covers every source of packages that might be usefull when embarking on the journey with Omega.