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Archboot release directory:
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- This directory contains installation images based on archboot scripts.
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- Those files are no official Arch Linux releases.
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- Use them on your own risk.
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Latest Releases:
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- Hybrid image file and torrent is provided,
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which include i686 and x86_64 core repository.
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- Please read the according Changelog files for RAM limitations.
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- Please check md5sum before using it.
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http://www.archlinux.de/?page=GetFileFromMirror;file=iso/archboot/latest
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Burning Release:
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Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image.
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- Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities.
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- Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities.
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This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives.
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'dd if=<imagefile> of=/dev/<yourdevice> bs=1M'
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Known Issues and limitations:
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- Release specific known issues and workarounds are posted in changelog files.
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- dmraid might be broken on some boards, support is not perfect here.
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The reason is there are so many different hardware components out there.
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At the moment 1.0.0rc16 is included, with latest fedora patchset.
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- grub cannot detect correct bios boot order.
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It may happen that hd(x,x) entries are not correct,
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thus first reboot may not work.
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Reason: grub cannot detect bios boot order.
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Fix: Either change bios boot order or change menu.lst to correct entries
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after successful boot.
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This cannot be fixed it's a restriction in grub!
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What is the difference to the official install media (latest version)?
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- It runs a modified Arch Linux system in initramfs.
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- It is restricted to RAM usage, everything which is not necessary like
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man pages etc. is not provided.
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- LTS kernel boot images are provided
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- Initial module loading and hardware detection is done by the hwdetect script.
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- It doesn't mount anything during boot process.
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- It uses a different setup script.
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Setup features (latest version):
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- CD/USB/OTHER and FTP/HTTP installation mode
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- Changing keymap and consolefont
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- Changing time and date
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- Preparing harddisk, like auto-prepare, partitioning, GUID (gpt) support etc.
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- Creation of software raid/raid partitions, lvm2 devices and
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luks encrypted devices
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- Supports standard linux,raid/raid_partitions,dmraid,lvm2 and encrypted devices
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- Filesystem support: ext2/3/4,btrfs,reiserfs,xfs,jfs,ntfs-3g,vfat
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- Package selection support
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- Autoaddition of usefull packages, like ntfs-3g etc.
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- LTS kernel support
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- Auto/Preconfiguration of fstab, mkinitcpio.conf, rc.conf,
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crypttab and mdadm.conf
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- Auto/Preconfiguration of KMS/framebuffers
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- Configuration of basic system files
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- Setting root password
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- grub-bios, lilo, extlinux/syslinux, grub-efi-x86_64, grub-efi-i386, refind-efi-x86_64 bootloader support
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Bugs:
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- If you find a bug, please mail the archboot developer directly.
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- Arch Linux Bugtracker:
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http://bugs.archlinux.org
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What is archboot?
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- Archboot is a set of scripts to generate bootable media for CD/USB/PXE.
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- It is designed for installation or rescue operation.
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- It only runs in RAM, without any special filesystems like squashfs,
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thus it is limited to the RAM which is installed in your system.
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Please read the according Changelog files for RAM limitations.
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- Git repository:
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http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=archboot.git;a=summary
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- It is developed by tpowa.
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Have fun!
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tpowa
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<tpowa <funnysign> archlinux.org>
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(archboot developer)
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