Make bootable arch linux iso of installed system

I have installed Arch Linux in virtual box, with "Awesome" window manager and only required applications with it.
I want to make a bootable iso of this system, which i can carry around with me in pendrive and install in other system.Also, can i make a live usb from it?
Is it possible? If so, please specify the detailed steps. I am a newbie and have been using linux for 2-3 months only. Or, please give the link for the same.
Thanks

Thanks for the reply ewaller.
>Well, not quite. But, this is a VM. I assume you want to treat this as an appliance that you can copy to another host that has VirtualBox on it. All you need to do is copy >the *.vbox file that defines your VM (it is an xml file). It is about 10 to 20 kbytes in size. You also need to copy the file that defines the guests "disk". That is (usually) a *.vdi file. > Those can be tens or hundreds of gigabytes.
>If you actually ran from the pen drive, you could carry that drive from host to host. If you make a change in the machine while running on one host, thrn shut doen the >VM, and then move to another host, then those changes will follow you.
>If you are just looking to copy the VM to many places; after which the various copies can diverge from each other, you can just export the appliance to a *.ovf or a *.ova file on > one machine, then import that file on the next host.
In above case, i would only be able to transfer between the virtual machine and that will be restricting.
I did some research and found following thread which is similar to my problem,
http://askubuntu.com/questions/119718/h … d-remaster
but one of the two solution provided here only works on ubuntu(i.e relinux),which was suitable to me and the other one,ie clonezilla to make iso, i haven't tried, but it doesn't do what i want.
Relink does exactly what i want but doesn't work on arch linux.It is a fork of remastersys which is dicontinued and only worked for ubuntu and its related.
I also found this http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to … o-0131002/
but haven't tried it yet.Also it require to redo all the steps that i have currently done, so i want an alternative.
I also found a simple way, but it is essentially just backuping and restoring and require base install.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44805
Atlast, i got this http://systeminstaller.sourceforge.net/
but there is no description if it will work with arch linux or not.
I want something like above mentioned and i have no further ideas and searched everywhere, if anyone has any ideas, please suggest something.
Thanks in advance.

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I use Windows Vista as main OS and I'm trying to install Arch on VMware, the problem is, when I log in into the console and try to type anything else, it will crash my host system (Vista).
This is very weird because:
a) I'm running a virtual Gentoo on VMware and it doesn't freeze as Arch.
b) Arch Linux doesn't freeze the system if I use VirtualBox instead of VMware
c) I did a clean install of XP (just for testing purposes) and virtual Arch also crashed the system.
This is confusing me because:
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b) Why can VirtualBox handle Arch and VMware can't?
c) Even a clean install can't handle Arch on VMware? Does this mean it's something wrong in my hardware? How come if Gentoo works on VMware and VirtualBox handles Arch?
Please note that I can't use VirtualBox, I must use VMware and I would really like to use Arch instead of Gentoo. I'm trying to ditch Gentoo and use Arch but this problem is leaving me no choice than to keep using Gentoo...
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Ranguvar wrote:Is it that you can't use VBox, or you must use VMware? There are still other virtual machine apps.
I know, but I want to use VMware. I don't like VirtualBox that much and VMware is better for me. The other virtual machine apps don't even come close to VMware, at least in my point of view. But it doesn't matter, I want to use VMware.
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After installation, it never crashed during the install as far as I remember.
Ranguvar wrote:Do you get any specific error messages from Windows? Are you using the latest version of VMware? Can you at least try VirtualBox to help isolate the problem?
No specific error messages, nothing in the log files, there's nothing anywhere... Yes, I'm using the latest version. What do you mean try VirtualBox to help isolate the problem? I've already used VirtualBox, installed Arch fine and it didn't freeze.
Ranguvar wrote:This is very odd, and may actually indicate a problem with hardware, or something... a virtual machine should NOT be able to bring down the host, under any circumstances. If it can, both the OS and the virtual machine are bugged. Not too much of a surprise, but yeah.
My thoughts exactly but how can be an hardware problem if VirtualBox works just fine? How can it be a virtual machine problem if Gentoo works fine on VMware?
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It just freezes, not a BSOD. It is not a problem with Vista because it also happens on XP. Like I said on my first post, I did a clean install of XP, update all drivers and did all Windows updates, installed latest VMware version and the same thing still happened.
Joe_Arch wrote:How much ram are you allocating to Arch? Counterintuitively, you might want to try lowering it. If you allocate too much your host OS freaks out.
I have 2Gb (2x1024Mb) installed on my laptop and I'm using just 256Mb for Arch.
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That was me... I'm not saying it's a bug on Arch, but it's weird that Gentoo doesn't have a problem and Arch does. They must differ somehow, one must use some package where the other doesn't or some global system configuration is different from one to the other, there must be some difference, otherwise, they both would freeze or they both would work...

Installing Windows XP after Arch Linux already been installed [SOLVED]

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lzs wrote:
After a second thought, you'd have to move the home partition as well, as the extended partition counts too. I'd start with an arch live cd, cfdisk, delete swap, make extended, 2 logical drives, format the partition, backup, move home's content. then delete home, create new primary, install windows, write grub again, put the new partitions into fstab and tell grub where to find windows.
EDIT: After a third thought, combining home and root might be easier: Just copy home's content to your root partition (if ther is enough room ...), unmount home, copy the stuff to /home and delete the home partition from fstab. Then delete the old home partition.
Copying the home's contents to the root partition was what I had in mind. I'm trying to figure out how I would go about doing that though. If I copy the /home to the root partition from the old home partition - will it automatically pick it up if I delete the fstab entry. Also will it be possible to expand my /root partition after that to take up the space the home partion use to own?

[SOLVED]New Arch Linux ISO Installation Help.

Hi All,
I am trying to install Arch Linux using new ISO. For some reason I am unable to log into Arch Forums on Windows and I am writing this on my tablet. I will add more info (proper quote, etc.) as soon as I am able to log in a laptop browser. That being said I am trying to install Arch using new ISO. Here is what I did.
Partition using cfdisk /, /home , /swap and /boot.
Format all these in ext4.
Create folders in mnt - root, home, swap, boot.
mount partitions in mnt folders.
Pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
Error
ERROR: /mnt is not a mount point!
I install in /mnt/root which probably doesnt touch other partitions like home boot and swap.
I follow other steps on installation wiki and reboot takes me back to windows.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
Last edited by donniezazen (2012-07-24 22:49:01)

donniezazen wrote:Partition using cfdisk /, /home , /swap and /boot.
Format all these in ext4.
Create folders in mnt - root, home, swap, boot.
You don't need a root folder. /mnt is the root mount point. Before you mount boot and home:
mount /dev/sdax /mnt
where "x" is the number of your /root partition.
then
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sdax /mnt/boot
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sdax /mnt/home
(replace "x" in all the /dev/sdax with the correct partitions.)
Error
ERROR: /mnt is not a mount point!
you should have stopped here and posted or tried to figure out what you did wrong.
The edited Beginner's Guide is very clear about this. You should read it.
Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-07-24 20:09:24)

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Hey guys, here is my ArchISO script. To download latest version of iso image from a mirror. I will add more countries/mirros ones I have time. Right now there is only "United States" mirrors. Enjoy.
EDIT: Alright scrip now know as "ArchDL", and you can find it at
https://github.com/GoTux/Bash/blob/master/archdl.sh
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TuxLyn wrote:@Pranavg1890, I'll see what I can do. Also, I've created wiki pages at github for all the scripts I released.
Really? This script is to download the iso, right? so, maybe I'm wrong, but I think downloading the iso and install it to an usb has nothing to do.
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Anyway, about the downloading script.
What if it parsed the download page, to get all links listed there? With something like:
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Jan
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The Firefox add-on "DownThemAll!" can also handle metalinks.
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Last edited by Xyne (2009-04-24 22:05:25)

Xyne wrote:@Dieter@be
The post about metalinks on pacman-dev reminded me about this thread. The advantage of the metalinks over torrents, even webseeded torrents, is that you don't need a torrent client to download them. You can use DownThemAll (and maybe other add-ons) to download them directly in Firefox, for example.
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I am too lazy for a feature request right now...
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msg2() { out " ->" "$@";}
die() { error "$@"; exit 1; }
in_array() {
local i
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[[ $1 = "$i" ]] && return
done
track_mount() {
mount "$@" && CHROOT_ACTIVE_MOUNTS=("$2" "${CHROOT_ACTIVE_MOUNTS[@]}")
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CHROOT_ACTIVE_MOUNTS=()
{ mountpoint -q "$1" || track_mount "$1" "$1" --bind; } &&
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track_mount sys "$1/sys" -t sysfs -o nosuid,noexec,nodev &&
track_mount udev "$1/dev" -t devtmpfs -o mode=0755,nosuid &&
track_mount devpts "$1/dev/pts" -t devpts -o mode=0620,gid=5,nosuid,noexec &&
track_mount shm "$1/dev/shm" -t tmpfs -o mode=1777,nosuid,nodev &&
track_mount run "$1/run" -t tmpfs -o nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 &&
track_mount tmp "$1/tmp" -t tmpfs -o mode=1777,strictatime,nodev,nosuid
api_fs_umount() {
umount "${CHROOT_ACTIVE_MOUNTS[@]}"
valid_number_of_base() {
local base=$1 len=${#2} i=
for (( i = 0; i < len; i++ )); do
(( (${2:i:1} & ~(base - 1)) == 0 )) || return
done
mangle() {
local i= chr= out=
unset {a..f} {A..F}
for (( i = 0; i < ${#1}; i++ )); do
chr=${1:i:1}
case $chr in
[[:space:]\\])
printf -v chr '%03o' "'$chr"
out+=\\
# fallthrough
out+=$chr
esac
done
printf '%s' "$out"
unmangle() {
local i= chr= out= len=$(( ${#1} - 4 ))
unset {a..f} {A..F}
for (( i = 0; i < len; i++ )); do
chr=${1:i:1}
case $chr in
if valid_number_of_base 8 "${1:i+1:3}" ||
valid_number_of_base 16 "${1:i+1:3}"; then
printf -v chr '%b' "${1:i:4}"
(( i += 3 ))
fi
# fallthrough
out+=$chr
esac
done
printf '%s' "$out${1:i}"
dm_name_for_devnode() {
read dm_name <"/sys/class/block/${1#/dev/}/dm/name"
if [[ $dm_name ]]; then
printf '/dev/mapper/%s' "$dm_name"
else
# don't leave the caller hanging, just print the original name
# along with the failure.
print '%s' "$1"
error 'Failed to resolve device mapper name for: %s' "$1"
fi
fstype_is_pseudofs() {
# list taken from util-linux source: libmount/src/utils.c
local -A pseudofs_types=([anon_inodefs]=1
[autofs]=1
[bdev]=1
[binfmt_misc]=1
[cgroup]=1
[configfs]=1
[cpuset]=1
[debugfs]=1
[devfs]=1
[devpts]=1
[devtmpfs]=1
[dlmfs]=1
[fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon]=1
[fusectl]=1
[hugetlbfs]=1
[mqueue]=1
[nfsd]=1
[none]=1
[pipefs]=1
[proc]=1
[pstore]=1
[ramfs]=1
[rootfs]=1
[rpc_pipefs]=1
[securityfs]=1
[sockfs]=1
[spufs]=1
[sysfs]=1
[tmpfs]=1)
(( pseudofs_types["$1"] ))
newroot=/mnt
hostcache=0
copykeyring=1
copymirrorlist=1
offline=0
usage() {
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usage: ${0##*/} [options] root [packages...]
Options:
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-c Use the package cache on the host, rather than the target
-d Allow installation to a non-mountpoint directory
-G Avoid copying the host's pacman keyring to the target
-i Avoid auto-confirmation of package selections
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are given, pacstrap defaults to the "base" group.
EOF
if [[ -z $1 || $1 = @(-h|--help) ]]; then
usage
exit $(( $# ? 0 : 1 ))
fi
(( EUID == 0 )) || die 'This script must be run with root privileges'
while getopts ':C:cdGiMo' flag; do
case $flag in
C)
pacman_config=$OPTARG
d)
directory=1
c)
hostcache=1
i)
interactive=1
G)
copykeyring=0
M)
copymirrorlist=0
o)
offline=1
die '%s: option requires an argument -- '\''%s'\' "${0##*/}" "$OPTARG"
die '%s: invalid option -- '\''%s'\' "${0##*/}" "$OPTARG"
esac
done
shift $(( OPTIND - 1 ))
(( $# )) || die "No root directory specified"
newroot=$1; shift
pacman_args=("${@:-base}")
if (( ! hostcache )); then
pacman_args+=(--cachedir="$newroot/var/cache/pacman/pkg")
fi
if (( ! interactive )); then
pacman_args+=(--noconfirm)
fi
if (( ! offline )); then
pacman_args+=(-y)
fi
if [[ $pacman_config ]]; then
pacman_args+=(--config="$pacman_config")
fi
[[ -d $newroot ]] || die "%s is not a directory" "$newroot"
if ! mountpoint -q "$newroot" && (( ! directory )); then
die '%s is not a mountpoint!' "$newroot"
fi
# create obligatory directories
msg 'Creating install root at %s' "$newroot"
mkdir -m 0755 -p "$newroot"/var/{cache/pacman/pkg,lib/pacman,log} "$newroot"/{dev,run,etc}
mkdir -m 1777 -p "$newroot"/tmp
mkdir -m 0555 -p "$newroot"/{sys,proc}
# always call umount on quit after this point
trap 'api_fs_umount "$newroot" 2>/dev/null' EXIT
# mount API filesystems
api_fs_mount "$newroot" || die "failed to setup API filesystems in new root"
msg 'Installing packages to %s' "$newroot"
if ! pacman -r "$newroot" -S "${pacman_args[@]}"; then
die 'Failed to install packages to new root'
fi
if (( copykeyring )); then
# if there's a keyring on the host, copy it into the new root, unless it exists already
if [[ -d /etc/pacman.d/gnupg && ! -d $newroot/etc/pacman.d/gnupg ]]; then
cp -a /etc/pacman.d/gnupg "$newroot/etc/pacman.d/"
fi
fi
if (( copymirrorlist )); then
# install the host's mirrorlist onto the new root
cp -a /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist "$newroot/etc/pacman.d/"
fi
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