#In persuit of creating a live usb system that loads itself to to ram

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honest garden
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without bootloader & using uefi stub & UKI to reach the goal...
I'm stuck on having a mkinitcpio hook that actually does the job
its just a normal archinstall on a usb with ext4 as fs
please help~
if tis plausible or do I have to change the approach??

vocal furnace
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vocal furnace
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i would strongly suggest starting from one of those profiles

honest garden
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After a bit of tinkering…
I thought about changing my approach…
While uing that setup that setup…
(Though the steps are fool-proof)
The creation of a rigid airootfs.sfs & those are difficult to make properly…

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My approach here:
With my current rootfs stripped down with all the basic necessities like browser DE & all the required configs & etc
I made that / (rootfs) in a root.sfs (holds the necessity bins & that listed above) with some empty -e proc/* sys/* dev/* run/* tmp/* mnt/* media/* lost+found var/cache/pacman/pkg/* var/log/* home/Shahbaz/.cache*
(Forgot to include boot/* )
Now it (root.sfs) arch-chroots w/o any hiccup

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Thus I have a 1.59 gb root.sfs equivalent to that 900 ish mb airootfs.sfs…

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That initial approach of a normal install breaks on too many points to be feasible

honest garden
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@vocal furnace
Now do I just try to read & understand the wiki (keep the get the iso with the same kernel) write the iso in a flash drive then change the airootfs.sfs??

honest garden
vocal furnace
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i got no clue ngl

honest garden
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Then Gotta brute force my way into making…
A live flash drive~

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Thx for the help

vocal furnace
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np

vale sorrel
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you might like https://archboot.com/, it's an iso that let's you install and load a whole desktop environment in ram

honest garden
honest garden