From The Chakra Project - Wiki

This guide shows you how to create your own Chakra-LiveMedia.

Contents 1 Notice 2 Get the goodies 3 Check your profiles 4 Edit your profiles 5 Create your disc 6 Tips and tricks

Notice

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Get the goodies

First step is to prepare your build-computer to be able to create the live-media. Therefore you have to install some pkgs:

     pacman -Sy base-devel cdrkit 

If you installed a chakra-dvdimage it might be installed already.

Note: Also keep in mind that you'll need around 8 GB of free space in your [b]/home[/b]-dir to build a live-dvd.

Next step is to download our live-scripts. Create a folder in your home-dir and download the source:

     mkdir ~/DEV
     cd ~/DEV
     git clone git://git.chakra-project.org/chakra/live-scripts.git
     mv live-scripts live-scripts-work
     cd live-scripts-work
     ./1-fullclean.sh

Now you have a clean environment to begin with creating the live-media.

Check your profiles

Take a look into the folder profiles and you will find those profiles already:

• chakra-i686
• chakra-x86_64
• chakra-minimal-i686
• chakra-minimal-x86_64

You can edit them as you like.

Edit your profiles

Those files might interest you

     profiles/$PROFILENAME/addedpacks #what gets on and off the disc                                            
     profiles/$PROFILENAME/rootoverlay/etc/rc.d/functions.d/sysinit-chakra #modifies version display during boot       
     profiles/$PROFILENAME/rootoverlay/home/live/.kdemod4/share/config/kickoffrc #modifies kickoff favorites 
     profiles/$PROFILENAME/rootoverlay/home/live/Desktop #all files in that folder are displayed on the desktop in live-mode        
     profiles/$PROFILENAME/rootoverlay/usr/share/tribe/config/release_notes.txt #release notes displayed in tribe  
     profiles/$PROFILENAME/rootoverlay/usr/share/tribe/scripts/job-rcconf-network #decides what networkmanagment get used (wicd/nm)

You can play with the rootoverlay to edit some settings for the live-mode. Original settings will get installed with tribe. Sometimes you need to edit tribe-scripts to fit your purpose.

Create your disc

To create your own live-media run these scripts
Note: Remember to change the path to your local repository after you ran script 3!

     ./2-build-abs.sh
     ./3-update-overlay-pkgs.sh
     sudo ./4-build-iso.sh

If you wanna create a minimal-live-media run:

     ./2-build-abs.sh
     ./3-minimal-update-overlay-pkgs.sh
     sudo ./4-minimal-build-iso.sh

Tips and tricks

Tip: To get your ISO booted from USB read this.

Tip: Download binary repositories from here: http://chakra-project.org/temp/prerelease/respin-files/