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verma

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Registered: 2009-07-22

Posts: 7

Creating an installable image from customized Arch

Hello all,

Sorry if the title is a little misleading.  What I want to do is this:

I installed archlinux on one of my machines, configured it with a user, setup nice themes, created .xinitrc scripts to my liking and a whole bunch of other customizations.  Now I need to make it so that I can create something out of it, like an ISO or something, so that I can just directly go and install it on a new machine, and all of my configurations show up correctly.

This is for kiosk like systems, I just want to be like, here's the disk, boot with it and the correct environment will be setup.  I can assume things like compatible hardware, full disk usage etc.

Has anyone tried something like this before?  Any suggestions or ideas?

Thanks in advance,
verma

joaca_rj

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 76

Re: Creating an installable image from customized Arch

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Building_a_Live_CD

windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 220

Re: Creating an installable image from customized Arch

I'm figuring out how to do a similar thing with a bare bones kdemod 3.5 wm.
Start by reading up on larch.

http://larch.berlios.de/

There is also archiso in the repo and wiki where one can build a custom .iso.

verma

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Registered: 2009-07-22

Posts: 7

Re: Creating an installable image from customized Arch

Thanks guys .. nice starting points for me.

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: Creating an installable image from customized Arch

I maintained an larch package in aur, before disowning, you can maintain that if it will be good for you hehe

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