On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Smartboy <smartboyathome@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to the list.
>
> I was wondering how the kernel was built for the LiveCD. I am trying to
> build my own livecd based off of Arch's (with Squashfs LZMA), and thus need
> to patch the kernel to support it. I have tried searching, but neither Larch
> nor ArchISO have any info on this, and there is no documentation on the
> official CD that I could find.

The kernel is the stock arch kernel. It includes unionfs and squashfs.
The other modules, such as aufs and squashfs-lzma, are built
out-of-tree as external modules and simply included in the initramfs.

So squashfs-lzma is included with the kernel, then? If so, that is great, because I don't have to build it then.

Another question, is there anything special run at startup by the LiveCD which isn't run by a standard Arch release, such as startup scripts?

That should do it for now (I will probably have more questions as I get farther along with the build process). Thanks,

Smartboy