Build Your Own Distro With Archiso

Archiso is a highly-customizable tool for building Arch Linux live CD/USB ISO images. The official Arch images are built with Archiso. But, it can be used to create your own customized Arch ISO for personal use, or for potentially building your own Arch-based distro.

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NOTE: While this video took me quite awhile to make (a few hours), I rushed through much of the 'archiso'. A few reasons why my final ISO didn't look quite right were: (1) I didn't add any systemd services to airootfs/etc/systemd which meant my display manager (sddm) didn't start automatically. (2) The scripts that I put in airootfs/etc/skel/.local/bin need to have their permissions set in the profiledef, just like we did for the shadow/gshadow files. I'll have these errors (and more) fixed by the time we add Calamares to the 'archiso', assuming people are interested in that video. Hope this helps you guys that want to go ISO building!

[max_ishere]

As a potential maintainer of yet another arch post install script this is very much needed.

However, it's a personal project

[WPING-VIKNG]

This was such perfect timing, I had just opened up yt. Cheers DT!

[ilpsoas]

DT, thanks for everything you do, including this last archiso. Very informative, as would a calamares demo be. Another suggestion for exploration would be...

setting up a triple head with Xorg (and maybe even wayland if that even is possible) with a virtual screen of 5760x1080, thus creating one large screen for gamin, for instance, simracing.

[yasserkerbache]

This was an amazing watch. Helped me learn a lot about Arch and Linux in general. Thank you, DT! Would love to see a part 2!

This got me interested in making my own little "Live USB" version of my current setup. Would definitely be a lot of fun!

[gerardoalvarez]

Hey DT . I would love see your video explaining how to add calamares to archiso ! You are great teacher .

[dreamhollow]

This channel is such a blessing. Thank you.

[muntazirsaad]

Hey DT I highly suggest that you actually go on a journey and start building your own arch distro and configure it the way you want and then share it with the community. And also we are going to learn from you as you build the iso.

[TheMadSqu]

At 33:10 you just realised that you set yourself up for what is about to come :) Of course I would love to see how it´s done!!! And huge kudos for keeping in those happy little accidents everyone can learn from. Cheers to self installing dtos!

[martinhertz]

Awesome, good job DT, many don't know about this awesome tool! For the last decade or so, I always reinstall by rebuilding ISO instead of downloading one, which besides newer packages, then my script adds e.g auto wifi setup, testing repo, Dropbox support through rclone(retrieve any script I have), and few other tweaks etc. Plus own install/partition script, fully unattended. Thanks for vid!

[Sophed]

Super useful, we definitely need that Calamares video too!

[philipcollier]

Good timing, DT. I was looking for a video like this. Been looking into Artix and Arcolinux for a basic starter, then adding apps I want included.

[TeodorSobczak]

I will probably never build my own system, but I find this video very informative. So video on calamares is something I would like to see.

[TristanoA]

Excellent video! very good pace, easy to follow, no time-wastage. Well done!

[jayx-qq]

perfect timing was just looking into it yesterday thx !

[m.m]

Great content as always, very educational!

[DrSteveMorreale]

I loved watching this! THANK YOU! I'll look to see if you have made the Calamares video. I presume you did that work for your DTOS installer ISO. I'm going down rabbit holes here right now but having fun learning! Have a great day DT!

[muntazirsaad]

Finally a video about archiso.
Great video btw

[metalpunk]

I'd heard of this utility in passing, but had never checked it out. I'm glad I found this video and decided to try archiso, because even just being able to remove the god-awful bootup pcspkr beep is a huge win.

[jakjustanotherkomment]

Hi DT! I know my comment here is a little bit off topic, but I am commenting it here in order to not forget it, and to make it more likely for it to be read by you.

I know you like Tiling Window Managers a lot, and maybe you could appreciate this idea (or not). Well, let me tell it. I guess it would be interesting to have a command line utility to display all programs being run in a TWM and the tagname associated with it.

It would be something like this:
1 - alacritty
2 - qutebrowser/alacritty
3 - audacity/pavucontrol
and so on...

It could also contain the date/time and all those indicators that people love to see on their statusbars/taskbars.

This could be an interesting workaround for those TWMs which just have no taskbar or have a very limited one (and for those with a very old laptop, with smal lcd screen, where every inch of screen estate means a lot - so they have to disable the taskbar they already have)

What is the main advantage of this: you just have to memorize which tagname your terminal is and from there, issue 'list-twm-tasks' (or something like that) and then you know precisely where to go to with Mod+Number