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authorGerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar>2010-03-05 01:42:10 -0300
committerGerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar>2010-03-05 01:42:10 -0300
commitd3da9ee3dfaa18efb16fa62b80cd5f1729ae9bd2 (patch)
treee8406ac583409ed16b35f1c634a3891c7a4c6ae5
parentb80e5425181a8279d706fc1258975b37d24368e5 (diff)
Updated a bit the README. Add mini-guide in simple steps
Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar>
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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!
+
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