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@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ First off, Archiso has some dependencies: - mkinitcpio - cdrkit - squashfs-tools - - aufs2 - - aufs2-util - - mkarchroot from the devtools package + - aufs2 (only needed in target media) + - aufs2-util (only needed in target media) + - devtools for mkarchroot - syslinux Archiso itself can be installed with the handy dandy included Makefile, @@ -38,14 +38,12 @@ to create a mkinitcpio config file that suits your needs. Typically this means modifying whatever hooks you want. A typical set of hooks for archiso looks something like this: -HOOKS="base udev boot-cd archiso ide scsi sata usb fw filesystems" +HOOKS="base archiso_early udev archiso pata scsi sata usb fw pcmcia filesystems usbinput" -If you're creating an image for a bootable usb device, you'll want to -use boot-usb instead of boot-cd. It's probably worth mentioning that -hardware autodetection and things of that nature do not belong here. -Only what's necessary to get the system on its feet, and out of the -initcpio really belong here, fancier stuff can be done on the booted -system anyway. +It's probably worth mentioning that hardware autodetection and things +of that nature do not belong here. Only what's necessary to get the system +on its feet, and out of the initcpio really belong here, fancier stuff +can be done on the booted system anyway. You'll also want to create a list of packages you want installed on your live CD system. A file full of package names, one-per-line, is the format @@ -86,4 +84,32 @@ If you want to add plain directories to bind mount: bind-mounted relative to the live CD's root filesystem, and the last component is the type. + +- How can build installation mediums like provided by Arch Linux? + +- Just follow these next steps as root. +- Note that mkarchroot is optional, but with it, will ensure to have + a clean enviroment for building isos. +- This clean chroot, will take about 400MB (+130MB with all needed tools). +- After make, max space usage is about 2GB. +- In last step instead of just execute make, can be more selective: + Execute "make net-iso" or make "core-iso". + Do not execute make net-iso after make core-iso, otherwise net-iso + will be really a core-iso. + + +pacman -S devtools --needed +mkarchroot /tmp/somedir base +mkarchroot -r bash /tmp/somedir +# vi/nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and uncomment your prefered mirror. +pacman -S git squashfs-tools syslinux devtools cdrkit make +cd /tmp +git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git +cd archiso/archiso +make install +cd ../configs/syslinux-iso/ +make + +Done! + vim: textwidth=72 |