Install Mikrotik Via Usb Flashdisk

17-08-2021
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There will come a time when, after some amount messing around with OpenWRT, you will run out of storage, and won't be able to install any more packages or even create any more files. At this point you can consider upgrading to a router with a bigger flash memory, but if the router is otherwise working fine, and has a USB port, why not use a USB Flash Disk as your storage instead? Here are the steps to set up a USB Flash Disk as OpenWRT storage.

Tutorial Install Mikrotik OS. Tutorial Registrasi Lisensi pada Mikrotik OS. WebOS sistem operasi milik HP. 3 Fakta mengenai Windows 10. 5 Fitur baru dalam Windows 10. Cara Install Windows 7 dengan USB Flashdisk tanpa Software. Cara membuat Web Server pada Windows 7. Mikrotik-usb-6.38.iso is now a bootable image that can be transferred to USB with DD. The image boots fine but shortly after it complains that the CD-ROM is not present. It would appear that the Mikrotik coders have set it up so that the RamDisk looks on the CD-ROM for its NPK files to install the system. MikroTik RouterOS is based on Linux. Following that fact and knowing that Linux has the live USB versions, I decided to try to install RouterOS on a USB flash drive.The purpose of such installation could be testing, the live demo system or to use this flash drive instead of hard disk in ye olde computer.

I did this on my TP-Link 1043ND V2, with a USB2 sandisk cruzer fit 8GB plugged into the USB port.
Backup Your Current Settings
  • You'll want this if you screw up. Particularly if this is your internet router, and you've put in effort to get it working.
  • The easiest way to do a backup is System -> Backup -> Generate Archive. This appears to be a backup of the most package subfolders in /etc folder.
  • Note that there can be other stuff that needs backing up, especially if you created them outside of packages. For extra safety, I also did a:
  • This backup probably can't be restored via Luci, but will be useful if you've somehow lost everything and need to set things up from scratch.

Install/Cancel - after selecting the router and selecting the RouterOS packages below, use this to start install. SoftID - the SoftID that was generated on the router. Use this to purchase your key. Key / Browse - apply the purchased key here, or leave blank to install a 24h trial. Get key - get the key from your mikrotik.com account directly. Pastikan Flashdisk anda terdeteksi. Folder Hasil paket Router OS x86. Select All (Pilih semua) 4. Jika sudah muncul pesan Installation Completed, silahkan close Netinstall. Restart Laptop Anda lalu Setup BIOS untuk first boot melalui USB.

Reset Your Router
  • If you've got lots of space left in your existing onboard flash, this is probably not necessary. In my case, I was down to around 500k free space, so I thought it would be a good exercise to reset the router back to openWRT factory settings. This would also be a good chance to confirm I've documented my setup steps properly.
  • Configure your router for internet access. At least this fills up your original overlay file system with the bare minimum to get internet access.
Configure for Pivot Overlay
  • Execute the following:
    • Partition the flash disk. I had 8GB, so created a 2gb and 5.5gb partition using fdisk:
  • massive amount of storage for / and /data:

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  • I'm not actually quite sure what happens if you were to reset the system after this ... my guess is that OpenWRT would remove the /overlay which is on the USB flash disk. But the config on the /overlay on the built-in flash would then have stuff that is not in USB /overlay. To be safe, it's probably better to remove the USB flash disk and reset and reformat and repeat the above steps from scratch if you're planning to revert the system.
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