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Have an Artix live usb from current running Artix

How do we make an Artix live usb from current running Artix image system ?
Would anyone elaborate the definitive step by step work to accomplish it?

Re: Have an Artix live usb from current running Artix

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How do we make an Artix live usb from current running Artix image system ?

Who is "we"? Are you asking, or is some of your alternate egos asking collectively?
Seriously people, the collectivist "we" is so ridiculous., "We are the Borg ..."
What happened to "How can I do this?"

Would anyone elaborate the definitive step by step work to accomplish it?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/imagewriter/

There are more alternatives, if you would go reading to find them.

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Reply #2
How do ... make an Artix live usb from current running Artix image system ?
Would anyone elaborate the definitive step by step work to accomplish it?

Do you mean "make a bootable usb flash" or "remastering an installed Artix system"?
i3-3210 / 10GB / VGA Intel HD 2500 / SSD 240GB / Arch Linux / Kernel 6.11 / Openbox / Ungoogled-Chromium

Re: Have an Artix live usb from current running Artix

Reply #3
I think they meant how to snapshot their current Artix installation into a bootable ISO image. Linux Live kit and Linux Respin are the two most common solutions, but I'm not sure Respin works on non-Debian based distros. This LinuxMint forum thread might also be helpful.

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Reply #4
Respin and refracta works with Debian.
Remastersys and Wasta-remastersys - with Ubuntu.

There are several tools for remastering of Arch Linux:
arch-remaster
buildiso
Archiso
larch-live

But all of them are not very easy to use, without deep knowledge of Linux.
i3-3210 / 10GB / VGA Intel HD 2500 / SSD 240GB / Arch Linux / Kernel 6.11 / Openbox / Ungoogled-Chromium




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Reply #8
Aborted with error
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$ buildiso -p xfce -bc 
==> Start building [xfce]
==> Prepare [/iso/boot]
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in make_bootfs().

Re: Have an Artix live usb from current running Artix

Reply #9
I just successfully tested building an XFCE ISO in a QEMU XFCE OpenRC guest, using the procedure from the wiki article.

Have you followed that procedure (especially the first two lines from that article)?

Do you have enough free space available on your hard disk? Building a custom ISO requires around 7 GB of free space.

Re: Have an Artix live usb from current running Artix

Reply #10
tried to get the Artix now if it's on
-- sda8 ext4   1.0   Artix  2.9G  77% /mnt/xfce/artix/rootfs/
so
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$ buildiso -p xfce -sc -r /mnt

get
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$ cd /mnt/xfce/iso/LiveOS/ ; ls
rootfs.img  rootfs.img.md5


then continue as above, but with error issue

 

Re: Have an Artix live usb from current running Artix

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tried to get the Artix now if it's on
-- sda8 ext4   1.0   Artix  2.9G  77% /mnt/xfce/artix/rootfs/
so
Code: [Select]
$ buildiso -p xfce -sc -r /mnt

get
Code: [Select]
$ cd /mnt/xfce/iso/LiveOS/ ; ls
rootfs.img  rootfs.img.md5


then continue as above, but with error issue
I don't see the steps you listed in the wiki article that I linked. Again, follow the procedure from that article, and make sure you have at least 7GB of hard disk space available.