Required packages for building iso

• archiso
• git

sudo pacman -S archiso git

Installation and Build

• a.)

git clone https://github.com/Mika-Project/base-iso
cd base-iso
sudo mkarchiso -v .

Two directories will be created (work and out). You can find the ISO file inside out directory.

• b.) if you have more ram (>16gb)

git clone https://github.com/Mika-Project/base-iso
cd base-iso
sudo mkarchiso -v -w /tmp/archiso-tmp .

After building the iso make sure to remove the work/ directory or a different work directory that you've set yourself. If you don't do this you won't be able to build the ISO again.

You can find the ISO file inside out directory.

Optional

to auto remove the work directory, you can build the ISO with command: sudo mkarchiso -v -r . instead of sudo mkarchiso -v .

Quicky Test the ISO using QEMU

• Install the optional dependencies qemu-desktop and edk2-ovmf. sudo pacman -S qemu-desktop edk2-ovmf

MBR

run_archiso -i /path/to/archlinux-yyyy.mm.dd-x86_64.iso

UEFI

run_archiso -u -i /path/to/archlinux-yyyy.mm.dd-x86_64.iso