How to make a custom ISO image: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 04:29, 12 January 2024

ISO remastering

There are third party scripts to re-build completely custom images, like

alpine-make-vm-image

(works to only make a disk based VM image)

and there is Alpine's original

mkimg.

(creates a diskless ISO file - usually what you want for QEMU and Proxmox)

An alternative

It's also possible to commit and load ISO image customizations to and from a writable partition when booting in Diskless Mode.

Booting an ISO image with local customizations

Directly booting an ISO file

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-One way to completely re-build custom images is to use a script like [https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image alpine-make-vm-image].
+== ISO remastering ==
-* If you want to make a customized installer, you need to create <code>.default_boot_services</code> which will cause <code>mkinitfs</code> to create the defaults for the live image.
+There are third party scripts to re-build completely custom images, like
+* [https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image alpine-make-vm-image]
+(works to only make a disk based VM image)
-But there is also an alternative: [[Alpine_local_backup#Commiting and loading ISO image customizations|Commiting and loading ISO image customizations]]
+and there is Alpine's original
+* [[How_to_make_a_custom_ISO_image_with_mkimage|mkimg]].
+(creates a diskless ISO file - usually what you want for QEMU and Proxmox)
+== An alternative ==
+It's also possible to commit and load ISO image customizations to and from a writable partition when booting in [[Installation#Diskless_Mode|Diskless Mode]].
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 == Booting an ISO image with local customizations ==
-* From dedicated boot media, obviously.
+* [[Directly booting an ISO file]]
-* '''(Example included:)''' Booting and customizing an ISO image with an .apkovl in a [[Qemu#Live_mode| Qemu]] virtual machine.
-* Using e.g. Debian's grub-imageboot package and booting .iso files directly, instead of partitions.
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