OpenWrt image w/o LuCI

Hello Everyone.

I would like to ask if there are imagefiles of current builds of openwrt w/o graphical userinterface for devices having only 4MB of flash.

Background of this question is as follows:
I have a few WR-841N devices that suffer 4MB of flash and where one can download only older openwrt images. Also i have an CH314A flash programmer and a few Winbond 16MB flash chips, and also a few 64MB RAM chips arround.
Despite of my questionable soldering capabilities I would like to exchange the 4MB flash chips with the 16MB flash chips. I am aware of ART Partition and the last kilobyte of original U-Boot and also pepe2ks uboot-mod.
The only thing I cannot do is compiling openwrt, this extends my capabilities. So I thought why not flash a current build w/o LuCI, and when migrated to bigger chip installing LuCI lateron?

Will that work?
Best regards,
B3llemere

image builder does not require you to compile/build your firmware, pretty easy to use, ubuntu virtual machine is a nice trick.

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/imagebuilder

you can also check wiki on ho to exclude luci from image.

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/saving_space

cheers

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And all buildbot snapshots are without LuCI by default, both in master and in 19.07.

Only release images contain LuCI.

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Curious.

Do releases have imagebuilder?

you can find image builder in your target folder --> supplementary files bottom of download page, for both release and snapshot.

I am so sorry this is all way to complicated for my limited brain. I downloaded this imagebuilder and wasn't able to make a 19.07.3 build for my WR841N device. Also in snapshots there is no ready-to-use image for that device (AR71XX).
Any other ideas how I could get a 19.07.3 for WR841N with 16MB Flash mod?

image builder is really easy to use/setup, use something like virtualbox to install an ubuntu virtual machine and it's all copy and paste from wiki. anyways don't know your hardware version so you need to check:

master snapshot is here https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ath79/tiny/

19.07 snapshot is here https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07-SNAPSHOT/targets/ath79/tiny/

18.06 snapshot is here https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06-SNAPSHOT/targets/ar71xx/tiny/

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Yes, they do.