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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,839

initramfs iso creation

I am thinking of building an Archlinux based iso using just busybox and arch stock kernel. Init scripts are not really a problem but I would like to create an iso (something like minimal linux). Is there an easy way to do this?

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olegabrielz

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From: Norway

Registered: 2015-12-23

Posts: 255

Re: initramfs iso creation

Like archiso maybe..!?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/archiso

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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: initramfs iso creation

Was thinking more of an initramfs only iso... something like tinycore

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NuSkool

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Registered: 2015-03-23

Posts: 103

Re: initramfs iso creation

I looked into the archboot package a while back: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/archboot Prebuilt iso's: http://mirror.kaminski.io/archlinux/iso … t/2016.12/

The bootable image runs in ram, and contains Arch install scripts.

I recently got into some low powered ARM based hardware. This led to the discovery of Alpine Linux: https://alpinelinux.org/  It's supported on both ARM and X86 based hardware. I ended up putting together a complete Alpine desktop system in vbox on X86.  A version of Arch similar to Alpine would be a pretty cool option to Arch ARM.

Last edited by NuSkool (2017-02-26 21:50:18)