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+ <title>larch quick start</title>
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+<table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="larch_features.html">Previous: Features</a></td>
+
+ <td><a href="larch_docindex.html">Table of Contents</a></td>
+
+ <td><a href="larch_overview.html">Next: Larch Overview</a></td>
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+<br />
+
+<h1><big>larch</big>
+&ndash;
+a do-it-yourself live <em>Arch Linux</em> CD</h1>
+
+<img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 320px; height: 320px;" alt="" src="larch1.jpg"
+ name="graphics1" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10" />
+<br /><br />
+
+<h2>Quick Start</h2>
+
+<br /><br />
+
+<p>A quick run through of the steps necessary to build your own <em>larch</em> CD.
+This should provide you with a working live CD, but to take full advantage of
+the flexibility offered by the <em>larch</em> build system you will probably need
+to consult the rest of the documentation.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>At present there is only a repository for 'i686',
+ as I don't have a 64-bit machine (but testers are welcome to build their own
+ repository from svn - a simple script is provided).
+ </li>
+ <li>Download <a href="ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/larch/larch5.3/i686/larch-setup"><strong>larch-setup</strong></a>
+ to an empty working directory and run it (it is a shell script). This will in
+ turn download and unpack the current larch package, setting up symlinks so that
+ the build scripts can be run from this working directory.</li>
+ <li>Run './mklarch -h' to get a usage description.
+ </li>
+ <li>From now on you must be running as root, i.e. it's potentially dangerous stuff!
+ </li>
+ <li>You can then try building one of the example profiles, for example:
+ <pre>./mklarch -p larch/profiles/xmini</pre>
+ You can also adapt one of the example profiles to your own needs.
+ </li>
+ <li> If you chose a delivered profile, the build should just run, apart from
+ asking for confirmation a few times.
+ </li>
+ <li> For a custom build:
+ <ul>
+ <li> Copy an example profile (from larch/profiles) to your working directory, giving it
+ an appropriate name.
+ </li>
+ <li> Edit 'locale.gen' for your glibc locale needs.
+ </li>
+ <li> Edit 'rcconfx', which contains just the changes to the default
+ /etc/rc.conf. Especially the locale and console
+ keyboard setting may be interesting.</li>
+ <li> Editing the overlay (the set of files which are changed from the default
+ installation) might be a bit trickier, as permissions and ownerships must be
+ correct. Please read the relevant
+ <a href="larch_profiles.html">documentation</a>
+ before attempting this.</li>
+ <li> OPTIONAL: If you want ssh access to your live system,
+ see <a href="larch_ssh.html">'ssh access'</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ before running <em>mklarch</em>.
+ <li> Another possibility is to use <strong>larchify</strong> (run './larchify -h'
+ for a usage description) to 'livify' an existing <em>Arch Linux</em> installation, even
+ the currently running one. Certain packages must be installed, but then running
+ './larchify path/to/installation' should be
+ enough for a simple build. See <a href="larch_overview.html#existingSystem">
+ 'Making a live CD from an existing <em>Arch</em> installation'</a> for more details.</li>
+ <li> After a while, the iso for the CD should be ready for burning.</li>
+ <li> Alternatively, you can put it on a USB-stick, by passing the '-u' option
+ to 'mklarch'.</li>
+ <li> Share and Enjoy!</li>
+</ul>
+
+<table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+
+ <td><a href="larch_features.html">Previous: Features</a></td>
+
+ <td><a href="larch_docindex.html">Table of Contents</a></td>
+
+ <td><a href="larch_overview.html">Next: Larch Overview</a></td>
+
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+</table>
+
+</body>
+</html>