Build your own Arch disk

• Uses Archiso
• Aur local repo builder
• Cow size resizer
• Makefile

ISO FEB-1-2018

ISO download link of a build for those who do not have Arch Linux, or cannot run build. Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vxpwVLUWJp1wYvWWIYGumGzHJjLfWyhT/view?usp=sharing

Notable ISO packages, includes AUR packages

• Desktop
  • Lightdm ( enabled )
  • XFCE4
  • i3
• Browser
  • firefox
• Dev tools
  • vim
  • git
  • base-devel
• Themes
  • Paper icons
  • Arc gtk themes
• System
  • Linux Kernel 4.12.13-1
  • Gparted
  • Yaourt
  • TLP ( enabled )
  • sudo

RUNNING BUILDS

Build Requirements:

• Arch Linux x86_64-bit
• Have all required dependencies installed, including the archiso package.
• Have at least 5G of free disk space for a minimal build environment. 10G recommended.
• Builder will want a virtual environment to test ISOs,
  • ex: Virtualbox, QEMU, VMware.

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Customizing:

• Makefile build is a shortcut for .sudo ./build.sh -v
• Makefile clean is a shortcut for sudo rm -r ./work
• Packages can be added to or removed from packages.x86_64
• Users can be added through the file airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh
• Services and configs can also be written through airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh
• Temporary filesystem size [cow size] can be modified with ./cowsize.sh
  • ex: ./cowsize.sh 1G for 1 gigabyte of ramdisk when booted.

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Aur Packages:

• Place .git links for packages in aur_git.links
• Run ./yes_build_aur.sh to assemble the packages.

• Adds custom repo to Archiso's pacman.conf.

• Fetches AUR_BUILDER from github.

• Fetches all packages from aur_git.links

• Builds the packages.

• Adds packages to local custom repo.

• Moves custom repo to Archiso build directory.

• Disabling or Removing AUR Packages:

• Running ./no_aur.sh:
  • Restores pacman.conf.bak.
  • Removes custom packages from packages.x86_64.
• Running ./clean_aur.sh removes local repo folder.

• Re-Enabling Aur Packages:

• Running ./yes_aur.sh enables local repo in ./pacman.conf.

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Fix Archiso break ( booting ISO breaks at waiting for disk by id )

• Newer scripts can be copied from /usr/share/archiso/configs/releng.
• Delete ./airootfs/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/ because autologin is not wanted.
• Two files, airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh and the file packages.x86_64 have relevant configuration information.
• cp -r /usr/share/archiso/configs/releng/ ./ && rm -r ./airootfs/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/
• Get GIT customizations curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dogcatfee/Archiso_XFCE4/master/airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh > ./airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh
• Get GIT package lists curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dogcatfee/Archiso_XFCE4/master/packages.x86_64 > packages.x86_64 && curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dogcatfee/Archiso_XFCE4/master/packages.both > packages.both

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Video series I watched that helped me learn how to use the archiso builds.

• Part 1: https://youtu.be/DqV1BJtJXEA
• Part 2: https://youtu.be/uAwkYpgg-0M
• Part 3: https://youtu.be/n71KQjownSI
• Part 4: https://youtu.be/sOaZe5jUdPU

• If you add "-i" to /usr/bin/mkarchiso's pacstrap, do not forget to use -v when running builds from ./build.sh. The '-v' verbose argument is required to use with pacstrap's '-i' interactive mode, or the archiso build will stall waiting for user confirmation.

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