hello

i have just bought an NG 3500L, to replace my old wrt54gl

i have successfully installed openwrt on my 3500L. however it has a small root partition so i want to mount the root on an external drive (like i did with th wrt54gl - after i soldered an SD to it).

i tried the instructions in https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=24138
however it requires a package called block-extroot, which opkg can't seem to find

i tried to edit both /etc/preinit and /etc/preinit.arch, and add some lines using pivot_root to mount the usbdrive as /, however the lines doesn't seem to be executed.

i know i have the option of adding those lines to /etc/rc.d/whatever, however this will be done after /proc and all other is mounted (which means i have to remount them on the new '/') and after /etc/rc.d is already scanned (so files i add on the new /etc/rc.d will not be executed)

any help would be appreciated.

thanks,

erez.