The new mirror= option takes a mirror URL and creates a new mirrorlist.
When setting mirror=auto, the mirror is taken from archiso_http_srv in
order to keep using the mirror selected in the netboot menu.
Using a separate shell script to customize live-enviroment,
makes much more readable code.
Move all thing except:
* Need network access (name resolving).
* Need access to some file outside chroot.
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Leave the work to the [nss-myhostname] package that is now in {base}
and is configured by default in [filesystem] (/etc/nsswitch.conf).
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* add the network daemon to rc.conf
* configure dhcpd to background immediatly so we don't timeout if network is not up yet
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>
* We use a rc.conf file loser to the upstream default.
* Use the recommend config files to setup hostname, locale, timezone and console
EDIT (Gerardo): Add empty FONT= and use ln -f for localtime
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>
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Download and add the current installation guide as plain text.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>
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Adding branding here is not worth the effort. We should keep the archiso environment as vanilla as possible.
Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar>
The old autologin method doesn't work anymore with recent login from util-linux.
Utilize agetty -a instead.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>
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This will allow users to install packages within the live environment.
We use the haveged daemon to increase entropy from CPU timings.
See http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/ for details.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>
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UTC is a more reasonable default than Canada/Pacific
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>
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Now we can do this, since nobody touches this file before this step.
(previously by mkarchroot)
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This makes archiso_pxe_nbd functionallity full-independient from
archiso profiles (configs/*).
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In this way:
* Prepare locales requested by boot param mostly early possible.
* Setup special console at end of rc.sysinit
Remove unneded include from automated_script (already included by rc.conf)
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re-mount / as rw does not fail since regular file /etc/mtab does not exist
at that stage.
/etc/mtab was removed from root-image in this commit:
93763a2d82
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* Use device mapper + snapshot module, instead union layer filesystem.
* A block-level approach vs vfs-level.
* No more unofficial (Linux) things.
* More memory is needed.
* Refactor mkarchiso.
* Refactor hooks/archiso.
* Fix install/archiso_pxe_nbd
(due recent change in mkinitcpio-0.6.15 on checked_modules()/all_modules())
[Thanks Dave for the improved workaround]
* New configs/releng to build official images.
* Works with a Bash script instead of Makefile.
(better control and easy to maintain)
* Remove configs/syslinux-iso.
* Remove archiso2dual script. Integrate functionality in configs/releng.
* New configs/baseline to build the most basic live medium or use as template.
* New README (draft). [Thanks Dieter for fixing english grammar]
Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar>
