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-<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"
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-
-<h2>Running a <em>larch</em> live-CD/USB system</h2>
-
-<p>Of course the details depend on what you have installed and how you have
-configured it. For example, the 'mini2' example profile builds a console-only system,
-the 'xmaxi' profile boots to xfce4.
-</p>
-
-<p>One thing worth noting is that these supplied profiles automatically login
-to the root account, which - potentially - allows all sorts of 'dangerous' actions,
-like reformatting your disks or making a mess of your file-systems in other ways.
-This is because one of the main <em>raisons d'ĂȘtre</em> for <em>larch</em> is its use
-as an <em>Arch</em>-installation-and-rescue medium. For this, you need root access.
-However, if you want to use the system in other ways, e.g. for text or image editing,
-or for internet browsing or e-mail writing, it might be safer to do this as an
-unprivileged user. Such a user is easily created with the 'adduser' command, or
-in KDE with 'kuser' (or using the 'luser.py' script in the <em>larch</em>
-'<em>luser</em>' package). If you have a writable boot medium, such changes can be
-'remembered' by saving the session when you shut the system down (the possibility
-will normally be offered automatically).
-</p>
-
-<h4><a name="bootparm"></a>Boot parameters</h4>
-
-<p>As the <em>larch</em> build system is highly configurable, the available
-boot parameters can also vary, but by default 'swap' and 'c2r' are provided.
-'swap' indicates that an existing swap partition should be used (the default
-is not to use it). 'c2r' means 'copy to RAM', i.e. the system data is copied
-to main memory before the system is initialized. This allow the system to run
-very fast and frees up the boot device (e.g. the boot CD can be ejected and the
-drive used for another CD), but it does require a lot of memory (significantly
-more than the size of the boot medium), and the boot process is rather slow
-because so much data must be copied. Because of the high memory usage, I have
-arranged it so that 'c2r' also implies 'swap'. With A USB-stick as boot medium,
-the 'c2r' parameter should generally not really be needed, performance is normally
-pretty good and it doesn't occupy the CD-drive (if an extra boot CD is needed, on
-a machine that can't boot directly from USB, that can be removed after
-booting even without 'c2r').
-</p>
-
-<h4><a name="config"></a>Configuration</h4>
-
-<p>The supplied profiles are just intended as starting points for your own
-configurations, they are fairly primitive, in fact only a little more than a newly
-installed <em>Arch</em> sytem. If you are running a profile with X11, you may find that you
-need to configure it before it will run. Since <em>Xorg</em> version 7.3, it
-is often possible to run without an <strong>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</strong>, but
-it may be necessary to create and tweak the configuration file for your system.
-You can try 'X -configure' or 'xorgconfig' to create a starting point which you can
-then tweak. Start X with <em>startx</em>.
-</p>
-
-<p>The 'xmini' and 'xmaxi' profiles use a slightly more elaborate login approach on
-the first terminal, with a simple menu as well as automatic login. There is also
-a logout gui for xfce, which together with the login script can
-trigger session saving directly, bypassing the console prompt.
-</p>
-
-<p>If you are stuck with the console, there is still hope. It's not as pretty or
-newbie friendly as an X11 desktop, but still quite capable. I always like to have
-<em>mc</em> available, it's a real godsend for non-geeks (you should also install
-<em>lynx</em> so that HTML files can be displayed on the console - at a
-pinch you can also surf with it, but it is painful).
-</p>
-
-<p>If your console keyboard map is
-wrong, try running <i>km</i> (I stole this from the
-standard Arch install CD and modified it a bit to work in <em>larch</em>).
-It also modifies '/etc/rc.conf', so the change can be retained for subsequent
-runs by performing a 'session-save'.
-</p>
-
-<p>If you have a DHCP server on your network, you might well find that
-the network interface is configured automatically (assuming your <em>rc.conf</em>
-is configured appropriately). On my prototype, I could just fire up <em>konqueror</em>
-and the world was my oyster, as they say. If not, well I'm afraid it's
-not so easy. Until someone comes up with something better, you'll have
-to edit the appropriate configuration files (primarily '/etc/rc.conf')
-- see the <em>Arch Linux</em> documentation for details - and then do
-'/etc/rc.d/network start'. If you already have a running network
-interface but want to change it, you may need to stop it running first,
-using 'stop' instead of 'start', then make the changes, then start it.
-I don't know if 'restart' would work (it stops then starts the network)
-after a change to the configuration.
-</p>
-
-<p>Of course the exact details of what you can do depends on what
-software you installed, so I won't rabbit on endlessly about it here.
-Nearly all configuration details should be just the same as in a normal,
-hard-disk based installation.
-</p>
-
-<h4><a name="install"></a>Installation to hard disk</h4>
-
-<p>The <em>larch</em> hard-disk installer <em>larchin</em> may be used to install
-<em>Arch Linux</em> to hard disk (or similar). At the moment it is very fresh
-and rather minimal, probably rather buggy, but I hope it will improve over time.
-It is not intended as a complete solution for all aspects of <em>Arch</em> installation,
-but I have tried to concentrate on those areas that are unique to the installation
-process. In other words it does very little system configuration, because such
-requirements can also exist in an already installed system, so I think this should
-be covered by separate tools.
-<em>larchin</em> deals with partitioning and formatting of hard drives, placing
-<em>Arch Linux</em> (primarily a copy of the live system on which it is running)
-on the newly formatted partitions, and installation of the GRUB bootloader.
-It is so fresh that it hasn't yet got any documentation yet, but it's usage
-should be very straightforward - just run 'larchin.py', as root).
-</p>
-
-<p>As mentioned above the main approach to <em>Arch</em> installation covered by
-<em>larchin</em> is to copy the contents of the live system to a hard drive. Those
-(few) bits peculiar to the needs of a live system are removed and the result is a
-completely normal <em>Arch Linux</em> installation. I should perhaps mention
-the file 'larch0' in the '/.livesys' directory (copied there from the 'larch/copy'
-directory on the boot medium). This script is run at the end of the installation
-(if it exists) and allows custom installation actions to be performed.
-The possibility of doing a completely fresh installation using ftp to
-fetch the latest packages may be added at some point, but that is not yet certain.
-</p>
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