Arch live cd

spookykid · 2007-10-19 13:06:40

Hi all, i was thinking if it would be possible to create a LiveCD from my current archlinux install, more or less like a VMWare image. My idea is to install a fresh archlinux setup and from there make a live cd! Does archie can do this?

dolby · 2007-10-19 13:17:44

take a look at http://archie.sunsite.dk/wiki/doku.php

Dusty · 2007-10-19 13:59:56

Archie is great, but for your purposes, I'd suggest looking at larch:
http://four.fsphost.com/gradgrind/

s26c.sayan · 2007-12-01 20:27:13

spookykid wrote:

Hi all, i was thinking if it would be possible to create a LiveCD from my current archlinux install, more or less like a VMWare image. My idea is to install a fresh archlinux setup and from there make a live cd! Does archie can do this?

I use the Linux Live Scripts (http://www.linux-live.org/ ).
You'll need a custom kernel though!

Also, larch-4 testing does the same very well, although linux-live has a better compression ratio.

TheSaint · 2007-12-02 03:30:43

Dusty wrote:

http://four.fsphost.com/gradgrind/

All gradgrind pages I found on the web cannot be accessed (timed out)

neotuli · 2007-12-02 10:47:09

also try archiso. it shouldnt be too difficult to rig up what you want.
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=ar … ;a=summary

s26c.sayan · 2007-12-02 14:20:52

neotuli wrote:

also try archiso. it shouldnt be too difficult to rig up what you want.
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=ar … ;a=summary

Wow! This is interesting! Aaron had mentioned something like this sometime ago.

I was once, way back when,
working on a set of tools for building custom ISOs exactly like this.
They actually were functional last I checked, but I wanted to get your
input on features.
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The idea was: use pacman with
the --root param to install a system in it's own dir. Then, it would
create a squashfs image from that, and create a basic iso system that
unpacks the squashfs image and runs from that - in the way, I was able
to get a 390MB install down to 108MB when on cd.
Most of the trickery is done with mkinitcpio. The rest is just a
script to parse a file containing package names and apply a "config
overlay" which is either a directory or tarball containing files to be
dumped on top of the image after everything is installed - think of it
like making a custom /etc/ directory to be used in the ISO.
As for the tools themselves, I haven't touched them in a while, but
would love to get back into it, as it's real fun to do. I don't think
they're releasable at this point, but just wanted to get some input
for when I _do_ end up releasing them.

Are these the same set of scripts??

Last edited by s26c.sayan (2007-12-02 14:22:47)

neotuli · 2007-12-02 23:07:26

Yup. They are mostly functional now. I've produced a few sample CD's to show off what they can do: http://archlinux.org/~simo/archiso_tests/
If you want to see the configs for these, take a look at the various heads on my git tree http://code.neotuli.net/gitweb/?p=archiso.git;a=summary

It's fairly straightforward. If you have any improvements, definitely send us patches!

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#1 2007-10-19 13:06:40

Arch live cd

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