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Dobrosslove

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-15

Posts: 38

Making arch-based distro

Hello.
I started to make Arch-based distro. I have fully installed Arch + Openbox.

I have a couple of questions:
- How can I make an ISO from installed system I have?
- I haven't installed drivers for my graphics because if I respin it into a new system, users with nvidia graphics, for e.g. will involve with problems then. How can I avoid that, i mean, is there a script that will recognize graphics and download drivers for it?

That's all for now. Arch with Openbox and some setup rox.

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Making arch-based distro

AFAIK larch can make an ISO from an installed system.

Can't you let the user choose their graphics driver when they install the system - the same way Arch users do now?

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: Making arch-based distro

Hello.
I started to make Arch-based distro. I have fully installed Arch + Openbox.

I have a couple of questions:
- How can I make an ISO from installed system I have?
- I haven't installed drivers for my graphics because if I respin it into a new system, users with nvidia graphics, for e.g. will involve with problems then. How can I avoid that, i mean, is there a script that will recognize graphics and download drivers for it?

That's all for now. Arch with Openbox and some setup rox.

You can check out Archbang GiT. Alternativly, you can even join ArchBang Dev-team. Choice is yours, would be happy to help.

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Dobrosslove

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-15

Posts: 38

Re: Making arch-based distro

Thanks guys on help
@tomk
I want to make full graphical installation. I am on mobile and I cant check it out, so does Larch features possibility for automated installation of proper drivers? Or I must left it as is... In that case i must left VESA drivers only and note the users that they must type Pacman -S xf86-video-*driver* in console...

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tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

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Re: Making arch-based distro

How about you just install all video drivers, and let Xorg autodetect which one to use (i.e., no xorg.conf)?

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Making arch-based distro

How about you just install all video drivers, and let Xorg autodetect which one to use (i.e., no xorg.conf)?

nVidia proprietary drivers conflict with basically every other video driver, but if he's using nv/nouveau then that's doable.

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tavianator

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Re: Making arch-based distro

Quick hack to use the binary driver on nVidia chipsets:

lspci | grep 'VGA compatible controller: nVidia' >/dev/null && yes | pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

Dobrosslove

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-15

Posts: 38

Re: Making arch-based distro

I have downloaded larch and executed the script. How to run it? :S

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gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: Making arch-based distro

I have downloaded larch and executed the script. How to run it? :S

There is quite extensive documentation in the larch package itself and on the website.

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Dobrosslove

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-15

Posts: 38

Re: Making arch-based distro

I found it.
But, is there an application or way to create installation from system I HAVE, because I forgot to write down all packages I installed...
And how can I keep styles and menu icon that I set in the installation that I am going to create?

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toad

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Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: Making arch-based distro

And how can I keep styles and menu icon that I set in the installation that I am going to create?

/etc/skel (the cheap and easy way), even better in the core files of your DE/WM.

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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: Making arch-based distro

because I forgot to write down all packages I installed...

You could run "pacman -Qs" and see what you have installed. And if its an AUR package, use "pacman -Qm" instead.

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gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: Making arch-based distro

I found it.
But, is there an application or way to create installation from system I HAVE, because I forgot to write down all packages I installed...
And how can I keep styles and menu icon that I set in the installation that I am going to create?

I think this is probably what you want:
http://larch.berlios.de/doc7/larch_over … tingSystem

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Google

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Re: Making arch-based distro

If someone were to use the Arch-base, build the rest of the OS on top of it-- make a repository of their own (with the ability to use the default Arch repositories, and a custom repository), could they label the OS them self and call it their own distro? What is called for to actually re-label and call something your own distro?

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Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Making arch-based distro

If someone were to use the Arch-base, build the rest of the OS on top of it-- make a repository of their own (with the ability to use the default Arch repositories, and a custom repository), could they label the OS them self and call it their own distro? What is called for to actually re-label and call something your own distro?

There are instances where ppl simply tack on GUI installer and call the OS as their own, which is fine, as long as you give proper credit to the Arch devs

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Google

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Re: Making arch-based distro

Thanks, I hope to build my own distro. It will certainly contain more changes than a GUI installer tho!

trusktr

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Re: Making arch-based distro

What would be cool is a way to automatically keep the system updated with pacman (i know it exists already) but with extra features that let you easily manage pacsave files, pacnew files, and whatever other things that require attention, through a GUI.

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