I have 2 issues i am struggling with in the past 3 days, i hope someone here can help me to solve.

The first is making USB networking work - no matter what i did i couldn't do that and it seems the SSH is the most important feature of this great application. i tried following the thread about USB networking, playing with th interfaces, but nothing. if someone has this working i'll be glad for a few tips - maybe something else needs to be installed (i'm using windows - is that a problem?)?

The second issue is trying to convert the opt partition to ext4.
since i am a windows user, i am trying to create an ext4 partition using a windows application called using "Minitool partition wizard" (because i wasn't able to boot without the opt partition - i get a crash, probably because of a few symlinks i made to save space on rootfs). I can create and format an ext4, but the next step which i believe i should do is use backupmenu to restore my opt backup to the new partition - can someone who's using ext4 opt partition post the "BackupMenu.item"? i tried to modify it myself but with the changes suggested in earlier posts backupmenu does not start at all...