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IceRAM

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2004-03-04

Posts: 772

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How to create ArchLinux install CD (with new kernel+extra tools)?

I am planning to buy a HP nx6325 notebook. Unfortunately, it has some ACPI issues (thermal) which I think are solved in the git kernel version (they're not even in 2.6.20.1 I think). The problem is quite serious as it seems to be causing thermal problems.

I'd like to create a new ArchLinux install CD with the latest (git) kernel + some extra packages. I plan to backup the entire HDD (100GB) over network and I need something efficient to read NTFS partitions (=ntfsclone)

Unfortunately, the default ArchLinux install CD does not have this package. (as a request: maybe the ArchLinux install CD could also serve as a rescue Live CD.)

I found the "archboot" package - apparently, creating an install CD is straight-forward. I have looked for documentation on how to
* add tools to the ArchLinux install CD (available directly, without install) - I'd like to add "ntfsclone"+dependencies
* change the kernel (using archboot)
* (for the future) add packages available for install

I couldn't find anything. Does anybody know where I could find such information?

Many thanks.

Last edited by IceRAM (2007-02-20 21:56:06)

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gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: How to create ArchLinux install CD (with new kernel+extra tools)?

If there isn't a wiki page for this, it would be very nice if someone who has this knowledge could write one!

As an alternative, you might try larch.

(Do you really want to buy a notebook which might have thermal problems which may be solved in some kernel version?)

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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: How to create ArchLinux install CD (with new kernel+extra tools)?

I was working on something like this before I got pulled into pacman development.  I plan to finish it up at some point.  However, the problem lies in the fact that our official kernel does not contain the modules (squashfs/unionfs) for making a real live CD, so we're stuck with something like "archboot".

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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: How to create ArchLinux install CD (with new kernel+extra tools)?

OT ... what is the problem with squshfs/unionfs ?

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: How to create ArchLinux install CD (with new kernel+extra tools)?

The up-to-date versions of both squashfs and unionfs can no longer be built as external modules - they exist only as kernel patches. Unionfs will be merged in to vanilla at some point (it just made it into -mm last month), but that won't be for another while - at the moment, it's looking like 2.6.22 or after.