Open delta1512 opened 6 years ago
I attempted to get a bootable squashfs ISO today and I was able to get it working under BIOS only but could not load the root file system. I believe this BIOS only problem has to do with the fact that there was a line missing in the xorriso
command. I think I will be releasing a minimal version first via bittorrent before moving to a proper ISO.
Here is a documentation of some notes to remind me in the future:
Mount the Arch linux ISO to a temporary place and then copy over to another drive. Then extract the .sfs to an empty file system on a USB drive.
Make sure the copied files are at the base of the directory else the arch-chroot
command will fail to carry over a root directory and complain about not enough space.
Follow the additional steps below the main ISO generation command on the wiki page so that it will work with USB.
What I suggest is:
get it working under BIOS only but could not load the root file system
BIOS does not mount the root filesystem, it is the kernel/initrd. Please check that the kernel/initrd has modules needed to support squashfs and union.
Next, I suggest users to set up fast, large swap. Because that is where the changes are going to be temporary stored when memory runs out. (wus can pull multiple gigs sometimes)
The following are staging Ideas for the BOINC TMP OS experimental version:
Squashfs
Fully functional GUI similar to that of the standard spin
Low security requirements (due to temporary nature) - No ssh