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snowpine,

thanks for answers

Regards!

klanger,

I've heard the guy who work from Microsoft now about his days with Linux. He mentioned FreeBSD as the distro of choice and says; When I'm on Linux, then I use 100% Linux which is FreeBSD. OK, this is his preference and he says that he choose this for security reasons (minimum viruses written for FreeBSD) and runs on servers.

Yes, I thinked about FreeBSD but I didn't pay too much attention. This about speed is ineresting.
I've tried Puppy (latest) and seem that is somekind slower than previous !?! (JMSO=Just My Subjective Opinion).

After all sneaking and exploring others distro, I always come back in good company of CrunchBang!

Regards!

Last edited by IgorP (2010-01-24 08:57:35)

Followed step by step http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso to make a Live CD

Here's the console output as it creates the image:

mkarchiso : Configuration Settings
        working directory:   work
               image name:   none
====> Creating working directory: work
====> Installing packages to 'work/root-image/'
Cleaning up what we can
cp -r "work"/root-image/boot "work"/iso/
cp -r boot-files/* "work"/iso/boot/
mkdir -p "work"/iso/boot
mkinitcpio -c ./mkinitcpio.conf -b "work"/root-image -k 2.6.32-ARCH -g "work"/iso/boot/my-arch.img
:: Begin build
:: Parsing hook [base]
:: Parsing hook [archiso-early]
:: Parsing hook [udev]
:: Parsing hook [archiso]
:: Parsing hook [pata]
:: Parsing hook [scsi]
:: Parsing hook [sata]
:: Parsing hook [usb]
:: Parsing hook [fw]
:: Parsing hook [filesystems]
:: Parsing hook [usbinput]
:: Generating module dependencies
:: Generating image 'work/iso/boot/my-arch.img'...SUCCESS
mkdir -p "work"/overlay/etc/pacman.d
cp -r overlay "work"/
wget -O "work"/overlay/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/i686/all/
--2010-01-23 21:11:07--  http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/i686/all/
Resolving www.archlinux.org... 66.211.214.131
Connecting to www.archlinux.org|66.211.214.131|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 12016 (12K) [text/plain]
Saving to: “work/overlay/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist”

100%[======================================>] 12,016      --.-K/s   in 0.1s    

2010-01-23 21:11:08 (120 KB/s) - “work/overlay/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist” saved [12016/12016]

sed -i "s/#Server/Server/g" "work"/overlay/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
sed "s|@ARCH@|i686|g" isomounts > "work"/isomounts
mkdir -p work/iso/boot/isolinux
cp work/root-image/usr/lib/syslinux/*.c32 work/iso/boot/isolinux/
cp work/root-image/usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin work/iso/boot/isolinux/
mkarchiso -p syslinux iso "work" ""/home/will/my-arch"/my-arch-1.00-i686".iso
mkarchiso : Configuration Settings
        working directory:   work
               image name:   /home/will/my-arch/my-arch-1.00-i686.iso
====> Generating SquashFS image for 'work/root-image'
Creating SquashFS image. This may take some time...
Image creation done in 1.87 minutes.
====> Generating SquashFS image for 'work/overlay'
Creating SquashFS image. This may take some time...
Image creation done in 0.00 minutes.
====> Making bootable image
Creating ISO image...
[root@sasoria my-arch]#

And when I boot the cd I get:

Loading /boot/vmlinuz26........................................................
could not find ramdisk image: /boot/my-arch.img

I must have done something wrong somehow. Wish there was another tutorial to use archiso
and I feel like changing the topic to "to those who managed to make a Arch Linux LIVE CD" lol
Actually I'm going to make another topic

Last edited by willxtreme (2010-01-25 12:49:17)

lol yeah starting with Godane for now

Things are getting better I went from this fugly image:

to this:

+1

working on packages selection to not go over 700MB and settings and it should be good

Last edited by willxtreme (2010-01-26 02:53:45)

i think i's time i properly prepped my new pendrive to receive a new os.

I'm downloading it!!! THANKS!!!!

p.s. If I want to install it I have to follow the directions in the links some posts above regarding installing from live cd?

I haven't tried it personally yet but the next step would be to have an installer lol

EDIT: someone asked me about persistent USB install and I've found an interesting tutorial for Ubuntu Live CD that can be adapted to any distros.

Last edited by willxtreme (2010-01-26 16:25:14)

hmm the last words of Archiso tutorial are

but etc/fstab is currently

fdisk -l lists all partition on your system and we'd have to replace the last entry in fstab for the one corresponding to your USB drive but this can vary from a computer to another (/dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sda) and this would be a "custom solution".

A global solution would be to use the label approach

The iso needs to have a particular label let's say archbang and if you try to boot from usb, your pen drive would need to have the same label

LABEL=archbang             /bootcd       ....

I'll have to test that solution

Last edited by willxtreme (2010-01-26 17:34:14)

Yay I'm writting this message from the LIVE CD on my pen drive
I didn't used unetbootin
dd is the way to go
as root in terminal all I did was:

dd if=ArchBang_100.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M

as suggested in the wiki and it works

Last edited by willxtreme (2010-01-27 02:11:08)