[arch-general] Customising arch iso

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:49:36 +0000
Damien Churchill <damoxc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 March 2010 10:56, Damien Churchill <damoxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12 March 2010 10:54, Ionut Biru <biru.ionut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 03/12/2010 12:51 PM, Damien Churchill wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I was just wondering if there are there any up to date
> >>> instructions available for customising the arch installer? I only
> >>> need to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.32 in order to install (at
> >>> least that is the first problem I have encountered).
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance,
> >>>
> >>> Damien
> >>
> >> you could test this isos: http://build.archlinux.org/isos/
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ionut
> >
> > Excellent! Just what I was looking for, thanks a lot!
> >
> 
> Ahh my mistake, I need 2.6.33,
> 
> Heres the commit that adds support for my network card:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=0f5aac7070a01ec757ed243febe4fff7c944c4d2
> 
> Would I be able to just install kernel26 from testing on another arch
> and copy the resulting vmlinuz26 and kerne26.img files across to the
> new iso?
> 
> Damien

you can also build your own iso's using archiso.
it's pretty easy, although you need archiso from git and you must let
it look in a repository that contains a 2.6.33 package (ie archlinux
testing)

Dieter