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Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

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How to build your own install img?

How do I build my own arch install image...iirc there are tools but I don't know how to use them.

Also is it possible to use the usb .img installer off of one's harddrive?  I know I can use dd to put it on a partition, but was wondering if it would be able to boot and install properly.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: How to build your own install img?

This is from an email by Dieter to the arch-releng list:

   git clone http://projects.archlinux.org/git/archiso.git

   cd archiso/archiso
   sudo make install #to be packaged later

   cd ../configs/install-iso
   # change version in Makefile
   # if on x86_64, remove intel-536ep and intel-537 from packages.list

   ./buildall.sh
   scp release/* ...somewhere...

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Dieter@be

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: How to build your own install img?

What Allan posted is for when you want to create images who are the same as the official ones.  But you can also play with the package lists etc if you want (see configs/install-iso directory in the archiso project)

Also, you can just install archlinux-installer on any working arch system and run the installer from it to install arch on another.

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Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

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Re: How to build your own install img?

Yeh I ended up just installing from my existing install.  The reason I asked initially was because I wanted to make a installer cd with the latest kernel.

Thx!