Guide to self-make a install-boot-cd from current

Hi,
exist or can you help me to self-make an Arch install-boot-cd from current ?
thankyou
p.s.
example: personalising packages from a list

Yes I'm sure it is, but it is much easier with larch - that's why I developed it.
The larch installation scripts are written in python, which is much friendlier than bash (which I suppose is used in the standard installation CD), and they are quite easy to find. You should only need to change a line or two in part_mount.py.
But be warned - I think grub does not support reiser4 out of the box, so if you want to use reiser4 for your root partition and grub as boot loader, make a separate ext2 partition for /boot. I don't know whether lilo can boot reiser4, I don't use it. And remember to load the reiser4 kernel module before trying to access the file system, this may not happen automatically.
If you do want to use larch with reiser4, the easiest way to do this is probably to build it with the beyond kernel, and get the module loaded by the initramfs (add it to the line FS_MODULES=... in mklive/initrd/initrd_get_modules).

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 Cheers, Tom

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Reboot.
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Report back with your results...

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I've run out of ideas as to how to fix this problem. I have a late 2009 iMac quad i5, Mountain Lion, 12GB RAM, 1TB HD (recently exchanged under extended warranty).
I stopped counting how many times I have tried to get this up and running but I followed a whole bunch of 'how to's' on the net, including the official Appple guide, but I always end up with a black screen. I insytalled it from scratch using both, Apple drivers on CD and SD card and I can confirn that they installed correctly during my last try. That time I first installed Win Vista, then upgraded to Win 7. I took out the install DVD after first restart and left the SD card in its slot (correctly named, as suggested by Apple). the installation finished, the screen went dark for about 5 min, then the computer rebooted, the screen went dark again for another few min and after that the vomputer restarted again but this time all stayed dark and nothing happened for the better part of an hour.
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I don't know what links you have so i'll just include everything:
Installing boot camp on a Late 2009 iMac:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173
Direct link to Late 2009 iMac-specific Windows drivers.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL995
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Hope this helps.

Installing boot camp on a second drive

Hi All,
First let me apologize for this long-winded post and also for my lack of basic knowledge when it comes to mac computer skills.
I would like to install windows 7 on a brand new 500gb drive in a brand new mac pro.
I was reading through the installation & setup up guide for boot camp and was stonewalled on page 6 it says;
“If your computer has more than one internal disk and you want to install Boot Camp on a disk that isn’t in the first hard drive bay, remove the drives in the lower numbered bays. You can reinstall the drives after you install Boot Camp.”
Ok that makes sense but if I remove the first drive how do I install boot camp since the first drive contains boot camp on it?
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Mike

Shutdown - pull OS X drive(s) - continue with install.
You'll have to change to NTFS when you get to where to install.
At that point you can even format or partition.
As for the Assistant, well, some install Windows 7 on a drive without it (that can't be done with XP) and just leave one drive and boot from Win 7 DVD.
"that will have boot camp...."
There IS NO "boot camp." The assistant modified the partition table to include a standard MBR for booting Windows. And that would be on the #2 500GB.
Until you install the Apple setup.exe drivers and services after Windows is installed from your OS X DVD, there is nothing in or on Windows that is faintly about boot camp. Unfortunate term. It also gets to become a control panel in Windows to change the default startup OS (why not call it Apple OS Switcher / Apple Startup Disk).
There will be AppleTimeServices and AppleOSSwitcher services along with HAL and device drivers to enable them in Device Manager.
As for lowered numbered and first drive bay, they must think Mac Pro owners are locked into and only boot from drive bay #1. and that Assistant is a very limited not very smart partitioning tool is true.
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Install boot camp

Hi,
I have been using parallels now for a while and it just seems too temperamental for doing important university work.
How do I install boot camp on my new mac book? Are there any important things I should no when installing - i.e. size of partition has been mentioned to me.
Thanks

Joe:
How do I install boot camp on my new mac book?
The Boot Camp installation guide is [HERE|http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp>. It should be able to answer questions related to installation. Of course these discussions have several other information on boot camp/ windows. All you need to do is launch a search on them.
Are there any important things I should no when installing - i.e. size of partition has been mentioned to me.
Too many people make a partition very small and then regret having done so. My recommendation is to have a partition of at least 32GB. It is highly dependent on what your will be installing on Windows XP/Vista.
Axel F.

Can't install boot camp(Am in desperate need of help!!!)

Ok, the story, I will try to make it short:
-Got my Imac a month ago. Installed Boot Camp Vista Home Premium 64 Bit. No problem. Ran smooth.
-Later I got VMWare fusion and decided to check it out. Didn't like to to much, but now I can't install Boot Camp.
-When using Boot Camp assistent, it creates my partition(which 200 GB) Fat32! The problem is, when it wants to boot to install. It ejects the Vista installation DVD! No matter what I do.
-*If I hold down the ALT key(option button) during start up*, it will show a grey screen with two options(The Macintosh HD and the Windows Partition). Selecting the Windows partition gives a black screen with an error; *"non-system disk press any key to reboot"* Only problem is that the keyboard was dead or frozen so had to crash the machine.
-Pressing D on start up to enable the *Apple Hardware Test* showed no problems.
-Pressing Alt + Cmd(command) + P + R to *delete the NVRam and PRAM*, did not have any effect. I think I did it right though, because there came a second start up sound.
-Pressing S + Cmd(command) on start up to run *User Single Mode*, with the command; "/sbin/fsck -fy" did not reveal any problems either, except for a weird long messege that kept coming up, and which interupted the line I was writing on several times. The messege was as follows: +":/root# AppleUSBEHCI[0x6e8t000]:: Found a Transaction Past the completion deadline on bus Oxfd, timing out!(Addr: 6EP:4)"+
*Ran a program called Partition Inspector;*
* Report for internal hard disk *
+Current GPT partition table:+
+# Start LBA End LBA Type+
+1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)+
+2 409640 1531068455 Mac OS X HFS++
+3 1531330600 1953525127 Basic Data+
+Current MBR partition table:+
+# A Start LBA End LBA Type+
+1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective+
+2 409640 1531068455 af Mac OS X HFS++
+3 * 1531330600 1953525127 0c FAT32 (LBA)+
+MBR contents:+
+Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable+
+Partition at LBA 40:+
+Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)+
+File System: FAT32+
+Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)+
+Partition at LBA 409640:+
+Boot Code: None+
+File System: HFS Extended (HFS)
+Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS++
+Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af Mac OS X HFS++
+Partition at LBA 1531330600:+
+Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)+
+File System: FAT32+
+Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Basic Data+
+Listed in MBR as partition 3, type 0c FAT32 (LBA), active+
I don't know what any of this means, but I suspect the Boot Camp partition is the last one. I wonder what "Boot Code: None(Non-system disk message" means!?
*When running diskutil:*
*diskutil list*
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUIDpartitionscheme *931.5 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 729.9 Gi disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 201.3 Gi disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDiskpartitionscheme *931.5 Gi disk1
1: WindowsFAT32 My Book 931.3 Gi disk1s1
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FRMCxFREDADVD *3.5 Gi disk2
*And when I searched on the boot camp disc specificaly:*
Device Identifier: disk0s3
Device Node: /dev/disk0s3
Part Of Whole: disk0
Device / Media Name: Untitled
Volume Name: BOOTCAMP
Mount Point: /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
Partition Type: Microsoft Basic Data
Bootable: Is bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: SATA
SMART Status: Verified
Total Size: 201.3 Gi (216110792704 B) (422091392 512-byte blocks)
Free Space: 201.3 Gi (216109285376 B) (422088448 512-byte blocks)
Read Only: No
Ejectable: No
Whole: No
Internal: Yes
Other things I tried:
-Tried going into Startup disk, to force Vista to install from boot up, but it ejected upon startup anyway.
-Tried rebooting while holding down "C" to force a startup from a CD/DVD. Vista installation DVD still ejected.
-Tried reinstalling Leopard with the Leopard Installation Disc 01, but it also ejecred upon rebooting to install! < This lead me to believe that it's my Superdrive that is messed up, but it plays DVD Movies just fine, and I even just now just burned the Vista installation DVD to my desktop in a .dmg file. So I am not sure if that is it!
-I tried taking a different Windows Vista DVD(Windows Vista 32 Bit Home Premium) to see if it could install from that. It could not, and ejected upon startup like the Leopard and 64 Bit Home Premium Vista Installation DVD!
I am new to Mac, but I am desperate after getting boot camp to work again. I have litterly been trying to figure this out for days, and I can't get it to work. I tried to call Apple but they couldn't help me.:( I could really use your help. I just want it to work.
And speaking of working, I haven't been to work for two days, because I have been home trying to figure this out. It's critical that I get boot camp working. So please, mates, can't you help me.
I simply don't know what to do:(
Cry
-Oil Pedestal

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Instructions for all features and settings.
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Apple Boot Camp Support
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Can I dual boot snow leopard and mountain lion if I've installed boot camp on my drive

Yes as I said before. If your model Mac came with Snow Leopard and you are now running Mt Lion and have Windows installed in a Boot Camp Partition all you have to do is make the Mt Lion partition smaller, take the free space and make it another Mac partition and you should be able to install Snow Leopard into that partition.
I have Snow Leopard, Lion and Mt Lion installed on my MBP. No Windows in a Boot Camp partition because I run Windows XP in a Virtual Machine on both Lion and Mt Lion.

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