Freedom-Maker - Bdale's building tools for the FreedomBox project Install required build packages: apt-get install multistrap qemu-user-static To build for a DreamPlug, use sudo ./mk_dreamplug_rootfs This will yield a file tree under build/dreamplug, representing the contents of a root file system. Get that onto a USB stick with a Linux friendly file system (ext3 and not vfat) with something like sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /media/freedom sudo rsync -atvz --progress build/dreamplug/ /media/freedom/ sudo umount /media/freedom Move the USB stick to the DreamPlug, and arrange to boot the existing kernel from internal microSD pointing to our new root filesystem by interrupting the boot to talk to U-Boot: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 # Reboot the DreamPlug # You should see "Hit any key to stop autoboot: " - hit a key, any key setenv x_bootargs_root root=/dev/sdc1 rootdelay=10 saveenv reset The system should boot to a login prompt and the default password is 'freedom' for the root user. - - - - - If you want to set things up to boot from the internal microSD card, once you're logged into the system booted from root on USB stick you can use: sh /boot/copy2dream.sh If you choose to to reflash the device entirely you'll want to do the following to switch the root filesystem back to the internal microSD card: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 # Reboot the DreamPlug # You should see "Hit any key to stop autoboot: " - hit a key, any key setenv x_bootargs_root root=/dev/sda2 rootdelay=10 saveenv reset - - - - - To turn the device into a Torouter you'll want to do the following: # ssh or login to the router wget https://gitweb.torproject.org/torouter.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/packages/torouter_easy_setup.sh bash torouter_easy_setup.sh reboot This should result in a proper Torouter without any need for further configuration. Be aware that this is an imcomplete solution for now .. you will want to at least do things like create unique ssh host keys for your device!