My first attempt to create livecd using Archiso

Question

I just want to start by saying that I have searched the forum
I managed to create a archlinux liveiso consisting of  archlinux core Xorg and fluxbox following the archiso article in the wiki.
However I have one issue though when I run /arch/setup it only installs the base and base-devel packages not everything am I doing something wrong as I would like to install the whole contents of the cd.
any assistance will be appreciated.
Cheers

Answer 1

Hi Svenstaro I had a look at the wiki after you have updated it, that's how I found that the Grub part has been taken out here is my Makefile
#### Change these settings to modify how this ISO is built.
# The directory that you'll be using for the actual build process.
WORKDIR=work
# A list of packages to install, either space separated in a string or line separated in a file. Can include groups.
PACKAGES="$(shell cat packages.list syslinux)"
# The name of our ISO. Does not specify the architecture!
NAME=my-arch
# Version will be appended to the ISO.
VER=1.00
# Kernel version. You'll need this.
KVER=2.6.32-ARCH
# Architecture will also be appended to the ISO name.
ARCH?=$(shell uname -m)
# Current working directory
PWD:=$(shell pwd)
# This is going to be the full name the final iso/img will carry
FULLNAME="$(PWD)"/$(NAME)-$(VER)-$(ARCH)
# Default make instruction to build everything.
all: my-arch
# The following will first run the base-fs routine before creating the final iso image.
my-arch: base-fs
mkarchiso -p syslinux iso "$(WORKDIR)" "$(FULLNAME)".iso
# This is the main rule for make the working filesystem. It will run routines from left to right.
# Thus, root-image is called first and syslinux is called last.
base-fs: root-image boot-files initcpio overlay iso-mounts syslinux
# The root-image routine is always executed first.
# It only downloads and installs all packages into the $WORKDIR, giving you a basic system to use as a base.
root-image: "$(WORKDIR)"/root-image/.arch-chroot
"$(WORKDIR)"/root-image/.arch-chroot:
root-image:
mkarchiso -p $(PACKAGES) create "$(WORKDIR)"
# Rule for make /boot
boot-files: root-image
cp -r "$(WORKDIR)"/root-image/boot "$(WORKDIR)"/iso/
cp -r boot-files/* "$(WORKDIR)"/iso/boot/
# Rules for initcpio images
initcpio: "$(WORKDIR)"/iso/boot/archiso.img
"$(WORKDIR)"/iso/boot/archiso.img: mkinitcpio.conf "$(WORKDIR)"/root-image/.arch-chroot
mkdir -p "$(WORKDIR)"/iso/boot
mkinitcpio -c ./mkinitcpio.conf -b "$(WORKDIR)"/root-image -k $(KVER) -g $@
# See: Overlay
overlay:
mkdir -p "$(WORKDIR)"/overlay/etc/pacman.d
cp -r overlay "$(WORKDIR)"/
wget -O "$(WORKDIR)"/overlay/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/$(ARCH)/all/
sed -i "s/#Server/Server/g" "$(WORKDIR)"/overlay/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# Rule to process isomounts file.
iso-mounts: "$(WORKDIR)"/isomounts
"$(WORKDIR)"/isomounts: isomounts root-image
sed "s|@ARCH@|$(ARCH)|g" isomounts > $@
# This routine is always executed just before generating the actual image.
syslinux: root-image
mkdir -p $(WORKDIR)/iso/boot/isolinux
cp $(WORKDIR)/root-image/usr/lib/syslinux/*.c32 $(WORKDIR)/iso/boot/isolinux/
cp $(WORKDIR)/root-image/usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin $(WORKDIR)/iso/boot/isolinux/
# In case "make clean" is called, the following routine gets rid of all files created by this Makefile.
clean:
rm -rf "$(WORKDIR)" "$(FULLNAME)".img "$(FULLNAME)".iso
.PHONY: all my-arch
.PHONY: base-fs
.PHONY: root-image boot-files initcpio overlay iso-mounts
.PHONY: syslinux
.PHONY: clean
Last edited by sakrhass (2010-01-16 08:24:22)