Ezarcher Linux Build Templates - Make Your Own Custom Arch ISO
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Ezarcher Linux Build Templates - Make Your Own Custom Arch ISO
This is a quick video showing how easy it can be to create your own customized Ezarcher build with one of my templates and a little experimentation. I show how to transfer the desktop theme, icon choice, panel settings, and wallpaper selection from your desktop into the Ezarcher build. The ISO will have the same settings as your Mate desktop if you follow this guide. I also cover how to rebrand the Calamares installer with your own logo, slide show, and wallpaper choices. I also add the Trizen AUR helper into the build. I forgot to demo that working at the end of the video, but it does work.
My Ezarcher templates make it relatively easy to create your very own customized Arch based respin distribution ISO. You can create an ISO for your own backup and system maintenance purposes. Or, you can put your creation up on the web for others to download and use. Just have fun. :-)
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you manged to stop the video right where i look like i was high on my own shit lmao.
Sorry, but controlling video playback was never my strength. :-P
I'm new to this whole Distro Respin thing! It looks really fun and also really satisfying when you've got the exact look and feel you were originally going for!
Man O' Man, done downloaded the video, sharpened my pen & will soon give this another look at. You know, I said way back that I believed that the EZArcher way will take over as the consummate way to install Arch Linux and a desktop of your choice. I still believe that! Great work & thank you again for all you have done for Linux in general & making Arch easy to install and easier to understand. :D
Thanks Dennis! Each change brings small refinements. As long as I keep the process simpler than Arcolinux, I'll be in good shape. :-P
@@eznix roflmaomaomao!!!!
Blast from the past! Looked up this vid today and followed the instructions to make and add some programs from the AUR to the database and then the iso-build. The next step after endlessly tweaking the packages list ;-) Works great, thanks a lot!
Glad it helped! Sometimes the older videos come in handy. :-)
Thanks for the video! I've always found the idea of making my own custom arch iso pretty interesting.
Thanks. Now I have my own distro base on KDE
Hmmm I might go and try and build KDE Plasma, with those app and settings I use.
Would be so nice to have my own build of what I use daily :)
Thank you for great inspiration! - Who say that old men can't learn new stuff?
I for sure have learned a trick or two watching your wonderful videos!
Go for it! If you have any questions, just ask. :-)
Just find out that channel. I already love you
Looks Great . I will give your Ezarcher a spin and hopefully I might even get it customised a bit . Thanks Again :-)
Hope you enjoy it! Just remember, it's all about the journey. :-)
....and so my next job is .....Thanks for this Eznix.
Grande ...!!
Amazing video. Thank you alot for such amazing content and providing your support to the community. I personally do not like mate because I think it's old and eats alot of memory. I did the same with cinnamon with your cinnamon template but the panels aren't available as I customized, it's just blanked. You said in this video that for mate you only need mate and dconf folder, can you please tell us what folders do we need to export to etc/skel in template for cinnamon, xfce and gnome respectively ?
It is going to be a matter of trial and error. Both Cinnamon and Xfce have dot folders. What specific files are going to be different depending on the settings you want to transfer. You will have to experiment and figure it out.
@@eznix I am planning to install vanila arch and add only necessary packages for it to perform normally and configure it to my delight and then to transfer every dot and config file to the template. Maybe that'll work ig 😂
@@eznix bruh I tried alot but it's not happening, cinnamon is booting into it's default look, my custom settings are not getting transferred. Can you tell me what files should I transfer to etc/skel to get my Themes, Icons and Wallpaper as the default when booted in cinnamon or else I guess I'll have to make a custom distro in mate. I really love cinnamon tho 🥲
@@technicalamanullah7019 I don't really customize desktops on ISOs. Xfce and Mate are pretty easy. Anything else, I cannot help. Sorry.
@@eznix do you know someone who would knows how to do that. If yes then please do share their socials, I would be grateful for that
i dont understand why one would need to create custom ISO when there is nothing but just pre-selected/pre-installed apps? It takes less time to install arch manually + apps you need (not to mention, latest packages), than create your own iso, add stuff, install, and depending on how old the iso was, update if necessary since this is a rolling distro. imho. Hope to see some presets at least rather than just vanilla packages.
Nothing about this is "need" based. This is just stuff one can do if they want. :-)
Never heard of doing by learning ? We are all human, and we all need to have some fun to do. For me this is fun, and I also learn a thing or two.
(I am disabled, so can't run, or do anything like that, but I can try to keep my brain fresh with learning new things)
You said for mate we only need to export dconf and mate to etc/skel. So can you please tell me what folders do I need to export for cinnamon, gnome and xfce ?
would love to see a template with openbox, unsure how to get that thing running without configuring the display manager after building the ISO
If someone wants to contribute an Openbox template, I might add it. I have no patience for window managers and the time it takes to configure them. :-)
@@eznix ill send you one your way, once ive finished with my current OB build, im in your discord
great job but i wonder , how to remove the login and password entrey in the first time for the new users ? (profile edit)
I would ask the creators of a respin that actually did what you want. I never bothered since it was not important for me.
The first thing you need to ask yourself . . . TRG is holding up two fingers. Is this a Dutch thing?
I thought the two finger salute was a British thing. :-P
ehhhh TRG is danish ... and _not_ dutch :D
@@drpainsjourney I meant to go back and change that.
How can I install it on PC, I can't use file ISO I create to install. File ISO just run on VMbox
The build of Calamares in the templates no longer works because the version of boost and boost-libs (major dependenices of Calamares) got updated within the past two days. Here is a video showing how to rebuild Calamares once you have updated your system to the latest packages:
ruclips.net/video/3UUxHlRa8js/видео.html
Wow, great tutorial, awesome job and thank you. One question though, at aprox 18:20 you open a text file "calamares-dependencies.txt" and I am not seeming to find it in any of the templates. Not sure if I am supposed to create that and if so is there differences between the DE's? Or did it possibly get overlooked in the latest update? Thanks in advance for any help.
In the ezarcher isos, it is in the home folder in ezarcher/ExtraPkgs/calamares/ and in the calamares-20211222.tar file from Sourceforge.
@@eznix Ahhh, found it, very good. Thank you so much. Can't wait to give it a go. Thanks again for all your hard work.
I am not able to transfer my desktop configurations (theme, icon, wallpaper) to my iso in cinnamon. Please make a similar video for cinnamon 🥺
Sorry. I gave the general method for transferring desktop settings. You will need to experiment and see what works for you and Cinnamon.
Hi so my question is why is there no airootfs like the archiso
relang if this is a custom profile
Can you make a tutorial on making custom profile and you have one please like it
I am a newbie and want to make my own os
The video explains what you are asking. I use the archiso releng profile and customize it with the steps.sh script before running the mkarchiso command. All the files in my build template are copied into the profile folder, in my case, called ezreleng, and then the build proceeds.
@@eznix thanks
So if you create a arch Linux ISO OS. What kind of disclaimers do you use ? Any standards. Or dont you need one. I dont want to get seud when i launch a normal OS , Just someone bricks his pc cause of tempering
I chose to use the GNU license for my created work and everything that I did not write is licensed under whatever the creators chose to license under. The GNU has some standard disclaimers it suggests:
Sir. I tried do the same way and even did with poor arch install but install system will not come up. I dont know why i extracted the KDE tamplet and caramares changed everything. It makes the ISO but install system will not show. Can you help me?
I am sorry, but I have no idea what problem you are describing. Did you want to customize the desktop and have that show in the live iso?
@@eznix what i did is get the tamplet first. Then i went to each folder and changed for example ezarcher to NOS and removed couple of programs from packet list and used sudo ./steps.sh it builds the ISO. When i enter into the ISO it wont open install system the caramares. Any idea why?
The level of detail you are providing is not sufficient to tell why calamares is not running. What files did you change and how, exactly? What programs, exactly, did you remove? Did you try running calamares from the command line in the live system? Open a terminal and use sudo calamares -d to run calamares in debug mode and see what the output tells you.
The more you change, the more risk you take of breaking something, unless you are very precise and consistent. I cannot help you be more precise and consistent. Make little changes, test, and reevaluate. There are no shortcuts. This is on you to figure out what you have broken and then fix it.
@@eznix Thank you sir. When i put into the terminal calamares -d it told me what the problem was. I needed to match all folders with changed name. The branding folder with the rest of the changes. I had to change EZarcher everywhere in order for the caramares to work,
amazing tool! quick question, is there anyway to change the live session user's password from "live" to something else?
Covered in the video starting here: ruclips.net/video/FQ6PEPodnQg/видео.html
MYUSRPASSWD variable sets the user password. Change the value of the variable and the user password is set to whatever you place in that variable..
@@eznix thank you so much!
How to add grub themes on kde build ?
I don't do such things. Better to ask people that do. Sorry.
If you are in KDE and you have already customized your current system then it's quite easy, you just need to copy and paste your grub files from etc/ and usr/share. It should work
FIY @eznix... I deleted the comment!
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Ok. I tried to clarify what I meant. Everything's cool. :)
@@eznix Wasn't you it was me... My drugs are not working today... I also made a snap comment I did not want to leave. So thanks buddy!
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