[kwlug-disc] Upgrading from OpenWRT to LEDE

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I managed to upgrade my two routers (one used as a WiFi access point
only), from OpenWRT 15.05 to LEDE 17.01.4.

It was much easier than I thought.

Your configuration is preserved: that includes passwords, firewall rules,
DHCP, WiFi  settings, ...etc. You don't have to redo any of that.

- Get a list of installed packages:

opkg list-installed | awk '{print $1}'

- cd /tmp

- wget of the factory.bin release for your router model

- sysupgrade -v router-model-factory.bin

- After the reboot, install the packages that you saved in the first step.

opkg update
opkg install pkgname

You may want to install luci-ssl and restart uhttpd, so your admin
traffic is encrypted.

Some packages are missing, such as usbdev (for LED), but that
is not important.
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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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