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Table of Contents

This documentation covers larch version 7.1.

  • Introduction
  • Features
  • Quick Start
  • Overview of the larch build system
    • Installation of the larch build system
    • Projects and Profiles
    • System Installation overview
    • Quick larchify overview
    • Building a bootable medium
    • Building a boot CD for a USB-stick
    • Minimal build system requirements
    • 'pacman.conf' and 'mirrorlist'
    • squashfs and aufs
    • unionfs as an alternative to aufs
    • Custom packages
    • Generating the base package list
    • addedpacks
    • Making a live CD from an existing Arch installation
  • Profiles
  • Structure of a larch live system
    • squashfs and aufs
    • initramfs and mkinitcpio
    • /etc/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.shutdown
    • /etc/fstab
  • Saving a session back to the boot device (or even somewhere else)
    • Overlay archives
    • Special places in /var
    • Updating packages
    • Activating and deactivating the session-saving feature
    • Customizing the behaviour using scripts
  • Recompressing the whole system
  • ssh access
    • ssh host keys
    • ssh and X11
  • Running a larch live system
    • Boot parameters
    • Configuration
    • Installation to hard disk
    • 'Live' installation to hard disk
    • Create a CD from a USB-stick live system
  • Using the GUI
    • GUI Tab: Project Settings
    • GUI Tab: Installation
    • GUI Tab: Larchify
    • GUI Tab: Preparing the Medium
    • GUI Tab: Installation Tweaks
  • Command-Line Interface
    • The complete list of commands
    • Arguments
  • Changes from larch-5
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