larch – a do-it-yourself live Arch Linux CD

Table Of Contents

This documentation covers larch version 5.3

1. Introduction
   
   
2. Features
   
   
3. Quick Start
   
   
4. larch Overview
   • Installation of the larch build system
   • Using the larch build system
   • Quick mklarch overview
   • Quick larchify overview
   • Minimal build system requirements
   • 'pacman.conf' for building and live system use
   • squashfs and aufs
   • aufs as an alternative to unionfs
   • Partial rebuilding
   • Custom packages
   • Generating the basepacks list
   • addedpacks
   • Installation of the "pristine" system
   • Making a live CD from an existing Arch installation
   
   
5. Profiles
   • xpack and non-root owned overlay files
   
   
6. Structure of a larch live CD
   • squashfs and aufs
   • initramfs and mkinitcpio
   • /etc/inittab, /etc/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.shutdown
   
   
7. /etc/fstab
   • LVM
   
   
8. Session saving
   • Overlay archives, overlay.ovl and mods.sqf
   • Special places in /var
   • Updating packages
   • Activating and deactivating the session-saving feature
   • Customizing the behaviour using scripts
   
   
9. ssh access
   • ssh and X11
   
   
10. Running the live system
    • Boot parameters
    • Configuration
    • Installation to hard disk