[arch-releng] LiveCD kernel?

Smartboy smartboyathome at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 18:37:59 EST 2009


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Smartboy <smartboyathome at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So squashfs-lzma is included with the kernel, then? If so, that is great,
> > because I don't have to build it then.
>
> No. squashfs is. squashfs-lzma is not. larch has a PKGBUILD to build
> squashfs lzma - which i have considered for inclusion in extra.
>
> > 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?
>
> Nope. The liveCD is just an arch system. If you want custom steps run,
> I would recommend adding a daemon script to /etc/rc.d/<foo> on the
> livecd and adding it to the DAEMONS array in rc.conf. Either that, or
> use rc.local - the same steps you would take on your normal machine
>

Thanks a lot! You've really helped clear things up. :)

Smartboy
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