How to make a custom ISO image with mkimage: Revision history

31 January 2026

• curprev 11:4511:45, 31 January 2026‎ Balhurdi talk contribs‎ m 5,266 bytes +165‎ I am using this document has a base to expand on a larger project, I ran around for a little while trying to figure out why mkimg was throwing a permission denied error when

29 August 2025

• curprev 16:1416:14, 29 August 2025‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 5,101 bytes −15‎ Trim required packages
• curprev 16:0816:08, 29 August 2025‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 5,116 bytes −193‎ The key doesn't need to be in /etc/apk/keys (when not using --hostkeys) anymore
• curprev 15:5715:57, 29 August 2025‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 5,309 bytes −67‎ mkimage creates outdir automatically
• curprev 15:5615:56, 29 August 2025‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 5,376 bytes −87‎ mkimg.*.sh don't need to be marked as executable
• curprev 15:4815:48, 29 August 2025‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 5,463 bytes −95‎ remove 'apk update' since mkimage uses it's own temporary apk cache
• curprev 15:4715:47, 29 August 2025‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 5,558 bytes −253‎ remove mention of build user since no root privileges are required by mkimage
• curprev 15:4315:43, 29 August 2025‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 5,811 bytes −18‎ remove grub-efi mention: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/commit/5147450891cc9db4c2615b7c0ac4b978bd3797c8

13 June 2025

• curprev 19:0919:09, 13 June 2025‎ Cinemint talk contribs‎ m 5,829 bytes −14‎ No edit summary Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 18:3218:32, 13 June 2025‎ Cinemint talk contribs‎ m 5,843 bytes +14‎ The current version of Alpine Linux, when following the instructions, breaks without "--hostkeys" by default. I added this for the sake of new users.

15 January 2025

• curprev 13:4713:47, 15 January 2025‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 5,829 bytes −1‎ No edit summary
• curprev 13:4513:45, 15 January 2025‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 5,830 bytes +54‎ Add see also

30 December 2024

• curprev 14:1614:16, 30 December 2024‎ Teiha talk contribs‎ m 5,776 bytes −15‎ →‎Prerequisites: no need for duplicate line in doas.conf

11 June 2024

• curprev 03:4803:48, 11 June 2024‎ Jeffre talk contribs‎ 5,791 bytes +2‎ fix path as referenced earlier

20 November 2023

• curprev 23:1123:11, 20 November 2023‎ Divyekapoor talk contribs‎ 5,789 bytes +130‎ Add info about freshness of test.
• curprev 23:0923:09, 20 November 2023‎ Divyekapoor talk contribs‎ 5,659 bytes +145‎ Add the text to update the world file for an auto-install

23 October 2023

• curprev 04:2304:23, 23 October 2023‎ Zcrayfish talk contribs‎ m 5,514 bytes −6‎ Use ic template.

20 October 2023

• curprev 22:5422:54, 20 October 2023‎ Divyekapoor talk contribs‎ 5,520 bytes +139‎ Show how to make packages available on boot.
• curprev 22:4222:42, 20 October 2023‎ Divyekapoor talk contribs‎ 5,381 bytes +9‎ No edit summary
• curprev 22:3722:37, 20 October 2023‎ Divyekapoor talk contribs‎ 5,372 bytes +5‎ Grub is required for the build to finish.
• curprev 21:4821:48, 20 October 2023‎ Divyekapoor talk contribs‎ 5,367 bytes +122‎ Provide an example of updating the file to add packages to start on boot.
• curprev 21:4321:43, 20 October 2023‎ Divyekapoor talk contribs‎ 5,245 bytes +88‎ Add a command to replace the text in the above paragraph.
• curprev 21:2921:29, 20 October 2023‎ Divyekapoor talk contribs‎ 5,157 bytes +3‎ Doas apk update
• curprev 21:2821:28, 20 October 2023‎ Divyekapoor talk contribs‎ 5,154 bytes +128‎ Update to add doas user and permissions - doas is the standard as of 3.16

19 September 2023

• curprev 06:3106:31, 19 September 2023‎ Divyekapoor talk contribs‎ 5,026 bytes −41‎ Tentatively removing the merge proposal - it's confusing as the merge target page is less mature than this page.

25 August 2023

• curprev 12:4212:42, 25 August 2023‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 5,067 bytes −185‎ remove insecure usage of sudo
• curprev 12:3812:38, 25 August 2023‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 5,252 bytes −38‎ remove implicit dependencies
• curprev 03:0803:08, 25 August 2023‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 5,290 bytes +18‎ use https link

28 May 2023

• curprev 02:4402:44, 28 May 2023‎ Arrogance talk contribs‎ 5,272 bytes +41‎ No edit summary

28 January 2023

• curprev 05:0005:00, 28 January 2023‎ Leolo talk contribs‎ 5,231 bytes +3‎ Cmd template not working for me
• curprev 05:0005:00, 28 January 2023‎ Leolo talk contribs‎ 5,228 bytes +160‎ Fixed things that broke on my stock install.

6 July 2022

• curprev 13:1213:12, 6 July 2022‎ Psykose talk contribs‎ 5,068 bytes +90‎ apk add

14 June 2022

• curprev 21:5021:50, 14 June 2022‎ Jofo talk contribs‎ 4,978 bytes +15‎ fix mkimage (add aports/scripts)
• curprev 21:4621:46, 14 June 2022‎ Jofo talk contribs‎ 4,963 bytes +17‎ No edit summary
• curprev 21:4421:44, 14 June 2022‎ Jofo talk contribs‎ 4,946 bytes +5‎ add missing sudo (ERROR: Unable to lock database: Permission denied ERROR: Failed to open apk database: Permission denied)
• curprev 21:3921:39, 14 June 2022‎ Jofo talk contribs‎ 4,941 bytes +48‎ community repositories is required for 'sudo'

18 April 2022

• curprev 10:3210:32, 18 April 2022‎ Psykose talk contribs‎ 4,893 bytes −6‎ remove unrar

16 April 2022

• curprev 16:4016:40, 16 April 2022‎ Psykose talk contribs‎ 4,899 bytes −4‎ remove spl reference
• curprev 09:5009:50, 16 April 2022‎ Carlocorradini talk contribs‎ m 4,903 bytes +14‎ Clone only the code without the full git history

11 November 2021

• curprev 23:4123:41, 11 November 2021‎ Arrogance talk contribs‎ m 4,889 bytes −1‎ No edit summary

27 June 2021

• curprev 21:3021:30, 27 June 2021‎ Bt129 talk contribs‎ 4,890 bytes −6‎ No edit summary

1 May 2021

• curprev 18:4218:42, 1 May 2021‎ Sb1 talk contribs‎ m 4,896 bytes +186‎ moved info from How_to_make_a_custom_ISO_image

16 December 2020

• curprev 22:1322:13, 16 December 2020‎ Ajcollins0 talk contribs‎ 4,710 bytes +80‎ →‎Prerequisite

14 December 2020

• curprev 00:3200:32, 14 December 2020‎ Ajcollins0 talk contribs‎ m 4,630 bytes +111‎ →‎Prerequisite
• curprev 00:0700:07, 14 December 2020‎ Ajcollins0 talk contribs‎ 4,519 bytes +5‎ →‎Prerequisite

3 December 2020

• curprev 18:1018:10, 3 December 2020‎ Ajcollins0 talk contribs‎ m 4,514 bytes +17‎ →‎Minor update of git links to use the gitlab over the github urls

2 December 2020

• curprev 19:0319:03, 2 December 2020‎ Ajcollins0 talk contribs‎ 4,497 bytes +4‎ update link to git repo and the command to clone the git repo
• curprev 18:4718:47, 2 December 2020‎ Ajcollins0 talk contribs‎ m 4,493 bytes +10‎ Update link to github repo

2 August 2020

• curprev 22:3722:37, 2 August 2020‎ Ferneu talk contribs‎ 4,483 bytes +9‎ →‎Create the ISO
• curprev 22:3622:36, 2 August 2020‎ Ferneu talk contribs‎ m 4,474 bytes +191‎ →‎Create the ISO