NOTE: While this video took me quite awhile to make (a few hours), I rushed through much of the 'archiso'. A few reasons why my final ISO didn't look quite right were: (1) I didn't add any systemd services to airootfs/etc/systemd which meant my display manager (sddm) didn't start automatically. (2) The scripts that I put in airootfs/etc/skel/.local/bin need to have their permissions set in the profiledef, just like we did for the shadow/gshadow files. I'll have these errors (and more) fixed by the time we add Calamares to the 'archiso', assuming people are interested in that video. Hope this helps you guys that want to go ISO building!
At 33:10 you just realised that you set yourself up for what is about to come :) Of course I would love to see how it´s done!!! And huge kudos for keeping in those happy little accidents everyone can learn from. Cheers to self installing dtos!
This was an amazing watch. Helped me learn a lot about Arch and Linux in general. Thank you, DT! Would love to see a part 2! This got me interested in making my own little "Live USB" version of my current setup. Would definitely be a lot of fun!
DT, thanks for everything you do, including this last archiso. Very informative, as would a calamares demo be. Another suggestion for exploration would be... setting up a triple head with Xorg (and maybe even wayland if that even is possible) with a virtual screen of 5760x1080, thus creating one large screen for gamin, for instance, simracing.
Awesome, good job DT, many don't know about this awesome tool! For the last decade or so, I always reinstall by rebuilding ISO instead of downloading one, which besides newer packages, then my script adds e.g auto wifi setup, testing repo, Dropbox support through rclone(retrieve any script I have), and few other tweaks etc. Plus own install/partition script, fully unattended. Thanks for vid!
Hey DT I highly suggest that you actually go on a journey and start building your own arch distro and configure it the way you want and then share it with the community. And also we are going to learn from you as you build the iso.
I'd heard of this utility in passing, but had never checked it out. I'm glad I found this video and decided to try archiso, because even just being able to remove the god-awful bootup pcspkr beep is a huge win.
I loved watching this! THANK YOU! I'll look to see if you have made the Calamares video. I presume you did that work for your DTOS installer ISO. I'm going down rabbit holes here right now but having fun learning! Have a great day DT!
I would really love to see how to build the calamaris and how to make proper intaller!! Also your videos are most informative and easy to follow! Thank you for that.
Hi DT! I know my comment here is a little bit off topic, but I am commenting it here in order to not forget it, and to make it more likely for it to be read by you. I know you like Tiling Window Managers a lot, and maybe you could appreciate this idea (or not). Well, let me tell it. I guess it would be interesting to have a command line utility to display all programs being run in a TWM and the tagname associated with it. It would be something like this: 1 - alacritty 2 - qutebrowser/alacritty 3 - audacity/pavucontrol and so on... It could also contain the date/time and all those indicators that people love to see on their statusbars/taskbars. This could be an interesting workaround for those TWMs which just have no taskbar or have a very limited one (and for those with a very old laptop, with smal lcd screen, where every inch of screen estate means a lot - so they have to disable the taskbar they already have) What is the main advantage of this: you just have to memorize which tagname your terminal is and from there, issue 'list-twm-tasks' (or something like that) and then you know precisely where to go to with Mod+Number
Yes I want to build my own Linux system, it is an up-to-date version, thank you! Ok, so I have a question at 2:14 if you don't have a cursor, how would you highlight that line? I never saw anybody explaining it. I know everything is faster only on keyboard, but how do you do highlight with keyboard? Because I know you can Tab all the way down there, but it takes so much time and even then I'm stuck there because after that much button smash I think shift plus arrows don't let you highlight it, so I want to know how do you highlight stuff like this in middle of a text without a mouse?
This is 100th comment on the video. As usual, great video. And yes we all want you to go down the calamares rabbit hole and launch the DTOS ISO. The people have spoken.
maybe you can make a whole series of videos about calamares, you know over time and step by step DTOS will become it's own linux distro accidentally :)
Had some of the same errors when I was building an archiso for my work. IDK if this is the best way to do it, but I just built some services that run at first boot to do some swapping of files. This got me around the files already exist error.
this is 1 complicated process. if i could build my own arch iso, it would be simply arch, kde plasma (with some cool themes and customizations), firefox (pre-logged into my favourite sites if possible), libre office etc. i assume this would be live boot so any changes made would disappear on next boot. anyway, something like this with my pre-config could be a neat pocket swiss army knife whereever i go and need to get some work done on any machene. cool stuff. Thanks DT!
Hi DT :) Love your video as always. Do you know how to change the default shell to zsh with archiso? I googled a lot, but still don't know how to do it. Thanks.
i got all the way to packaging the iso with the mkiso command and welp, most of my packages werent found and i copied my exact pacman to the new one , it even showed the repos im used to but still had parsing errors, i think a lot of my packages are scripted installs or something how do i figure this out?
What if I want to make an ISO that's also an installer? I found a great set of scripts for turning my setup into a livecd which is nice but I want to install it. How do I build an installable iso?There seems to be very little info about this topic online.
I would really appreciate a video/series on calamares in general, not just on arch, even though I like arch, and use it personally, if I were to build a distro for my family, it would not be Arch. 😅
I may fiddle with archiso with calamares or jade, because i literally just need a partitioning tool because of my HDD having a windows dual boot i don't wanna nuke
I am a bit late here, but I would love to see how to use Calamares, I have been wanting to make my own Install of Arch that's a bit quicker to install than vanilla Arch, but not as bloated as Manjaro. Nothing complicated, just a simple quick-setup for a development environment, but I understand accomplishing that may be complicated in itself.
Hey DT! Thanks for this tutorial Can you check out niri window manager? I just switched from dwl to it and I feel its great I am not sure if you are into wayland or not but the main thing i like about it is implementation of workspaces and scroll features
Hey, DT primo video. How about showing us how to make our own package list instead of our copying your package list? That is worth a pt2 video on building your own distro. + Signed files pt3 security
Does the last words mean that If I make a usb-drive bootable with the .iso file produced by archiso and put it in my laptop, I'll only be able to live-boot and won't be able to actually install the customized-arch-iso that I built on my laptop?
Hey man, I just discovered you recently, as well as Arch linux (I've been using Mint for years). I tried DTos script today, good, good work. You have to create a downloadable iso. I'm trying to cast the Xmonad spell.
I hope you cover some day the calamares installer, I undesrtand better with your videos than a documentation web, and even more calamares-installer wiki is a little mess.
I'm not familiar with the tools that people use to make Debian-based or Ubuntu-based ISOs, but I do remember there being a tool called 'cubic' that allowed people to create custom Ubuntu ISO. So that might be what you're after.
NOTE: While this video took me quite awhile to make (a few hours), I rushed through much of the 'archiso'. A few reasons why my final ISO didn't look quite right were: (1) I didn't add any systemd services to airootfs/etc/systemd which meant my display manager (sddm) didn't start automatically. (2) The scripts that I put in airootfs/etc/skel/.local/bin need to have their permissions set in the profiledef, just like we did for the shadow/gshadow files. I'll have these errors (and more) fixed by the time we add Calamares to the 'archiso', assuming people are interested in that video. Hope this helps you guys that want to go ISO building!
Maybe do a followup video someday perhaps?
Thank you for spending time making this video. I have been wondering how to do this for a long time.
Give us your dtos image
thanks for this tutorial. i would also appreciate one including calamares.
amazing had this idea today! and you came out with 3 days ago!
This was such perfect timing, I had just opened up yt. Cheers DT!
This channel is such a blessing. Thank you.
As a potential maintainer of yet another arch post install script this is very much needed.
However, it's a personal project
At 33:10 you just realised that you set yourself up for what is about to come :) Of course I would love to see how it´s done!!! And huge kudos for keeping in those happy little accidents everyone can learn from. Cheers to self installing dtos!
This was an amazing watch. Helped me learn a lot about Arch and Linux in general. Thank you, DT! Would love to see a part 2!
This got me interested in making my own little "Live USB" version of my current setup. Would definitely be a lot of fun!
Super useful, we definitely need that Calamares video too!
DT, thanks for everything you do, including this last archiso. Very informative, as would a calamares demo be. Another suggestion for exploration would be...
setting up a triple head with Xorg (and maybe even wayland if that even is possible) with a virtual screen of 5760x1080, thus creating one large screen for gamin, for instance, simracing.
Hey DT . I would love see your video explaining how to add calamares to archiso ! You are great teacher .
Awesome, good job DT, many don't know about this awesome tool! For the last decade or so, I always reinstall by rebuilding ISO instead of downloading one, which besides newer packages, then my script adds e.g auto wifi setup, testing repo, Dropbox support through rclone(retrieve any script I have), and few other tweaks etc. Plus own install/partition script, fully unattended. Thanks for vid!
Good timing, DT. I was looking for a video like this. Been looking into Artix and Arcolinux for a basic starter, then adding apps I want included.
perfect timing was just looking into it yesterday thx !
Excellent video! very good pace, easy to follow, no time-wastage. Well done!
Great content as always, very educational!
Finally a video about archiso.
Great video btw
I will probably never build my own system, but I find this video very informative. So video on calamares is something I would like to see.
This is what I need, thanks DT.
Hey DT I highly suggest that you actually go on a journey and start building your own arch distro and configure it the way you want and then share it with the community. And also we are going to learn from you as you build the iso.
Already exists called dtos
@@shimmysham8725 DTOS right now is only a postinstallation script, not a proper iso like he showed here, and heck this wasn't even a proper iso
Great video DT thank you
I'd heard of this utility in passing, but had never checked it out. I'm glad I found this video and decided to try archiso, because even just being able to remove the god-awful bootup pcspkr beep is a huge win.
I loved watching this! THANK YOU! I'll look to see if you have made the Calamares video. I presume you did that work for your DTOS installer ISO. I'm going down rabbit holes here right now but having fun learning! Have a great day DT!
I would really love to see how to build the calamaris and how to make proper intaller!! Also your videos are most informative and easy to follow! Thank you for that.
You're just pushing those Arch documentation maintainers' buttons now. :D (and I am kidding, your videos are excellent).
Very nice DT. I like it.
Oh I'd definately like to see the adding Calamares to de ISO video.
Just Use arch install
Hi DT! I know my comment here is a little bit off topic, but I am commenting it here in order to not forget it, and to make it more likely for it to be read by you.
I know you like Tiling Window Managers a lot, and maybe you could appreciate this idea (or not). Well, let me tell it. I guess it would be interesting to have a command line utility to display all programs being run in a TWM and the tagname associated with it.
It would be something like this:
1 - alacritty
2 - qutebrowser/alacritty
3 - audacity/pavucontrol
and so on...
It could also contain the date/time and all those indicators that people love to see on their statusbars/taskbars.
This could be an interesting workaround for those TWMs which just have no taskbar or have a very limited one (and for those with a very old laptop, with smal lcd screen, where every inch of screen estate means a lot - so they have to disable the taskbar they already have)
What is the main advantage of this: you just have to memorize which tagname your terminal is and from there, issue 'list-twm-tasks' (or something like that) and then you know precisely where to go to with Mod+Number
Yes I want to build my own Linux system, it is an up-to-date version, thank you! Ok, so I have a question at 2:14 if you don't have a cursor, how would you highlight that line? I never saw anybody explaining it. I know everything is faster only on keyboard, but how do you do highlight with keyboard? Because I know you can Tab all the way down there, but it takes so much time and even then I'm stuck there because after that much button smash I think shift plus arrows don't let you highlight it, so I want to know how do you highlight stuff like this in middle of a text without a mouse?
This is 100th comment on the video.
As usual, great video. And yes we all want you to go down the calamares rabbit hole and launch the DTOS ISO. The people have spoken.
Good basic "overview".
For first steps it can be helpful.
Thank you DT, i'am french and i easy follow your guide
Do you have your mcdonalds meal before recording your videos? You seem to be full of energy all the time.
No, I only get McDonalds on live stream days. :(
McArchBTW
@@gunzblazin6860 MacDerek :P
Great instruction video Derrick! Thank you and if you are still interested in a calamari build, absolutely! Peace!
Yes DT go for calamares basics tutorial 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
maybe you can make a whole series of videos about calamares, you know over time
and step by step DTOS will become it's own linux distro accidentally :)
cool - might give it a go
Please do the Calamares video! I would love to see the process as I build my own ISOs!
Had some of the same errors when I was building an archiso for my work. IDK if this is the best way to do it, but I just built some services that run at first boot to do some swapping of files. This got me around the files already exist error.
this is 1 complicated process. if i could build my own arch iso, it would be simply arch, kde plasma (with some cool themes and customizations), firefox (pre-logged into my favourite sites if possible), libre office etc. i assume this would be live boot so any changes made would disappear on next boot. anyway, something like this with my pre-config could be a neat pocket swiss army knife whereever i go and need to get some work done on any machene. cool stuff. Thanks DT!
Great video! Definitely want more like this, including adding calamares (sp). Regarding included WMs, have you tried dk?
Are you planning to provide an ArchISO image with DTOS?
Now the thing is how would you install this ISO whilst keeping all the config files. Calamares perhaps?
Kalamaris or something? Please provide us with another amazing vid about that!
Hi DT :)
Love your video as always.
Do you know how to change the default shell to zsh with archiso? I googled a lot, but still don't know how to do it. Thanks.
Wonderful, can you show us how to make the same with Ubuntu based distros?
Cubic iso creator
@@sukanyareddy8587
Thank you
Hey so I’m following this tutorial but don’t see anything called os-release, any ideas?
Why would youbdelete the output? That is unnecessary writes. You can delete the conflicting file inside if it conflicts.
What the shell you use in thus video and how you configure that shell?
i got all the way to packaging the iso with the mkiso command and welp, most of my packages werent found and i copied my exact pacman to the new one , it even showed the repos im used to but still had parsing errors, i think a lot of my packages are scripted installs or something how do i figure this out?
Hello DistroTube how did you create your packages of DTOS because I want to create Linux Distro with archiso
What if I want to make an ISO that's also an installer? I found a great set of scripts for turning my setup into a livecd which is nice but I want to install it. How do I build an installable iso?There seems to be very little info about this topic online.
very interesting. did not know this. cool.
I would really appreciate a video/series on calamares in general, not just on arch, even though I like arch, and use it personally, if I were to build a distro for my family, it would not be Arch. 😅
Really cool subject matter.
Yes, do a calamares on top of your dtos iso that you did in this video. Maybe I can make my own iso or fiddle around with it.
I may fiddle with archiso with calamares or jade, because i literally just need a partitioning tool because of my HDD having a windows dual boot i don't wanna nuke
I am a bit late here, but I would love to see how to use Calamares, I have been wanting to make my own Install of Arch that's a bit quicker to install than vanilla Arch, but not as bloated as Manjaro. Nothing complicated, just a simple quick-setup for a development environment, but I understand accomplishing that may be complicated in itself.
Hey DT! Thanks for this tutorial
Can you check out niri window manager?
I just switched from dwl to it and I feel its great
I am not sure if you are into wayland or not but the main thing i like about it is implementation of workspaces and scroll features
Nice tutorial...
Hey, DT primo video. How about showing us how to make our own package list instead of our copying your package list? That is worth a pt2 video on building your own distro. + Signed files pt3 security
Does the last words mean that If I make a usb-drive bootable with the .iso file produced by archiso and put it in my laptop, I'll only be able to live-boot and won't be able to actually install the customized-arch-iso that I built on my laptop?
now if this was in a GUI, i'd have a good time updating an ISO monthly with all the updated packages i needed.
This is interesting but puppy Linux which I have used for years has its own iso creator along with tons of functional applications.
Hi DT, will be nice video with aaaaaaal arch based distos.
Hello,
How can i use "mkarchiso" the os system i use is ubuntu
what about doing the same in ubuntu / debian ?
is it possible you can do a video for beginners of creating a distro?
hey DT, mind making a video walking through creating our own package manager, with repos from github
Please do create a video for installer
awesome!!!!!
what file manager do you use?
Hello wonderful person reading this comment
hi!
Well hello there fellow wonderful person
Hello!
hello
Oh, hi. Lol.
dear DT, why is audio on Linux so difficult?
-sincerely,
a noob without sound.
which is the zsh theme??
Please make a video also on calamares installer.
22mn: the archiso was complaining about the file in the working directory not the profile one 😉😎
Hey man, I just discovered you recently, as well as Arch linux (I've been using Mint for years). I tried DTos script today, good, good work. You have to create a downloadable iso. I'm trying to cast the Xmonad spell.
Interesting 😅 👌 👍
Can you do a video with linux mint please ?
I was just about to start recording a series about this lmao
mkpasswd is easier?
Go down that rabbit hole please.
show kalmari install plz
Yes for Calamares please.
CALAMARES , PLS !💯
when i try to build i get error install: cannot create directory .../usr/bin/bash": File exists
PLS, DT!!! Pure Arch with Calamares ISO! 🤤
Erik Dubois: Bald Edition
DT is NOT BALD!
@@tailsorange2872 I know. The CGI software he uses is kinda crazy.
You know how actors/actresses will often say that "the camera adds about 10 pounds." The camera also takes away hair.
@@DistroTube 😂
being bald adds 100 points to your iq
Why don't you just put your extra programs in /usr/local, and maybe add a link using alternatives.
rm -f os-release and then you can copy yours.
how many times did he said iso !? 😅
I hope you cover some day the calamares installer, I undesrtand better with your videos than a documentation web, and even more calamares-installer wiki is a little mess.
Not as good as I'd hoped it would be. ""Yada -yada-yada."
not interested in arch what about linux mint?
I'm not familiar with the tools that people use to make Debian-based or Ubuntu-based ISOs, but I do remember there being a tool called 'cubic' that allowed people to create custom Ubuntu ISO. So that might be what you're after.
cp /etc/os-release .