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BurningFury

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Arch Linux with Live Kernel? Possible?

I want to know if you can install Arch with a Live Kernel?
And if so... for what Architecture? i686 or x86_64?

You know, for Audio and Video processing and the likes.

Ubuntu Studio is a great alternative, but it comes bloated with a lot of applications.

On that same topic, can I also patch the kernel to support UDF 2.5?
I have a BluRay drive in my PC, so I would like to view some BluRays *nothing wrong with that*

As always... comments are welcomed.

Ashren

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Re: Arch Linux with Live Kernel? Possible?

Do you mean a real time kernel?

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11364

Last edited by Ashren (2009-10-02 21:38:38)

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hbekel

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Re: Arch Linux with Live Kernel? Possible?

I assume you mean a realtime kernel patched with the rt-patchset (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/)

There are no precompiled packages in the official repos, but there's a "kernel26rt" PKGBUILD in AUR:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11364

Since you build the kernel package yourself using makepkg it will be build for your architecture.

Note that if you use any third party kernel modules (e.g. the nvidia driver) you'll have to build them for your realtime kernel as well. For some of these there's also pkgbuilds available in AUR that can be used with the kernel26rt package.

schivmeister

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Re: Arch Linux with Live Kernel? Possible?

prebuilt binaries for kernel and nvidia (i686; x86_64 out-of-date): http://archaudio.org (and in case of issues post your problems there, _not_ here!)

You can do whatever you want with the kernel. You can make your own custom kernel by adapting the stock PKGBUILD:

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

Search AUR, there are plenty of user-contributed buildscripts of other kernels. For example, this one also provides an option for realtime patch:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15224

And any custom kernel means a different modules dir, so your nvidia, ati or whatever PKGBUILD has to be edited to reflect the directory eg. /lib/modules/2.6.31-custom

Last edited by schivmeister (2009-10-02 19:02:44)

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BurningFury

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Re: Arch Linux with Live Kernel? Possible?

Yeah, that's what I meant.

Will look into it.

But how about the UDF 2.5 patch?
Can it be applied to the kernel as well?

hbekel

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Re: Arch Linux with Live Kernel? Possible?

Of course, if you build your own kernel you can apply any patch you want. Look at the existing AUR packages for modified kernels (like the rt one) and how patches are applied there and modifiy it as necessary. Some familiarity with the "patch" program and ABS in general will help. See the wiki...

In general, Arch is just Linux, and uses the same "raw material" (sources) as any other distro. Any changes or patches other distros apply can be applied on Arch as well (it might require some fiddling, but it's always possible).