Pre-made Images

After messing with chroot so much lately I was wondering if we could take the default OpenWRT images we use and put them into a chroot jail and do everything we normally do and then re package the jail as the bin, then new users would only have to load the .bin into the update firmware field. I understand that the limitation is the USB drive, but is there any way that the firmware upgrade could handle all of that? Is this something that's do-able? Because theoretically it could make it almost as simple as download and click.

may you can download the stuff, which will be on the usb stick, during the first bootup.

But would it be more worth to create a useful install then a hard-to-maintain image for every device?

Really, I believe that for the most common images (MR30 and the WR) could make it very easy for new users to install. We could also still keep the old install info for the not as common routers. I just know that we often get some new users who are even concerned about using the command line and this could streamline the process for them.

tell me

I believe that we should have the ability to create new pirateboxes offline, but my unix knowledge is not good.

Would it be feasable to have a script or an executable that puts all the prerequisite files to generate a Piratebox on the USB drive? This means you should only need to flash the rom then run the script to create a device without needing to connect it to the internet to finish downloading. It also means that in the event of an internet outage you can use one piratebox to generate more as the required files can be copied from the USB drive to the new one.

me-tan, I like to have a feature like that, too.
I dropped the work on this, because it wasn't easy to stay close to all the dependencies the OpenWRT packages have.

Hi, all!
Can i built piratebox.ipk in image?

check this repository:
[github.com]