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This documentation covers larch version 8.2.

WARNING: The structure of the profiles has changed a little since larch-7.2, so it would be best to start afresh - but actually only small changes would be necessary, primarily to the /boot directory.

[Last modified for larch-8.2.0, Oct 24, 2010]

• Introduction
• What is a live system?
• Build system requirements
• Command line vs. GUI
• Overview
• Installation of the larch build system
• Profiles
• The stages of the build process
• Features
• Quick Start - Console
• Quick Start - GUI
• Installation of the base Arch system
• 'pacman.conf' and 'mirrorlist'
• Custom packages
• Selection of packages to be installed
• Building the live system
• mkinitcpio and the initramfs
• Rebuilding using an existing 'system.sqf'
• Making a live system from an existing Arch installation
• Kernel and Initramfs
• Preparing the larch live medium
• Data Persistence: The Writeable Overlay
• Command-line Scripts
• Building a boot CD for a USB-stick
• Profiles
• The overlay directory
• The cd-root directory
• Special files in the cd-root/larch directory
• Other important files within a profile
• Adding user accounts
• Structure of a larch live system
• squashfs and aufs
• 'Bundles'
• initramfs and mkinitcpio
• /etc/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.shutdown
• /etc/fstab
• ssh access
• ssh host keys
• ssh and X11
• Running a larch live system
• Boot parameters
• Configuration
• Installation to hard disk
• 'Live' installation to hard disk
• Using the GUI
• GUI Tab: Project Settings
• GUI Tab: Installation
• GUI Tab: Larchify
• GUI Tab: Preparing the Medium
• Boot entries/options
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