How to make an Arch Linux Distribution Installer?

I have made a customized distribution of Arch Linux in vmware.
I now need to make its installer for deployment.
How can I do it?
I have tried Archiso, but it makes new work dir and downloads archlinux again.
I want to use the current installed and modified linux for the installer.
Please help

Hello,
Basically, I am doing the same right now in VirtualBox.
There is aif, an installation framework for Arch, which can be customized to install and configure Arch just like you manually did. Use [wiki]Archiso[/wiki] to create a bootable medium and make sure to install aif on it. Now, you need to modify aif in /usr/lib/aif to make exactly the same changes you did to your running system. Then, you can run /sbin/aif from the bootable medium to install your customized Arch.
Unfortunately, I myself do not know how to change aif to do things to the target system, e.g. install custom packages or manipulate files on the installed system. If someone has already done this or knows how to do, I'd be very grateful if he can share with us.

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Last edited by outschi (2014-03-20 00:31:18)

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outschi wrote:I created a bootable USB stick with Universal USB Installer on a Windows System.
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