[arch-general] [*] Re: Building netboot images

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:07:07 +0530
Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Dieter Plaetinck
> <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:33:16 +0530
> > Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
> >
> >> So you want to do a templated installation something like that of
> >> kickstart availalbe in Fedora, Redhat and CentOS.
> >>
> >> It is possible using Arch Installation Framework but it is under
> >> development and not meant for use in production.
> >>
> >
> > aif is the installation software which is pretty stable and has
> > officially replaced the old /arch/setup and /arch/quickinst scripts
> > since august last year. (it also supports automated installations)
> >
> > it has however nothing to do with the actual creation of images.
> > we (arch-releng) use the archiso tool to do that, there's also the
> > unofficial archboot scripts which are meant for creation of
> > lightweight, early-userspace-only images.
> >
> >
> > Dieter
> >
> 
> Okay. I read about AIF in the forum (Google search), so was unsure
> about its stability. Isn't there any documentation about AIF ?
> 

not as much as i would want, but:

http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/tree/README
in the repository there are also examples, (very brief) design notes,
etc.

and of course:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide

Dieter