How to make a custom ISO image: Difference between revisions

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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.

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-The easiest way is to use a script like [https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image alpine-make-vm-image].
+== ISO remastering ==
-== Live Disk customizations with APKOVL configurations ==
+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) 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)
-Once you have booted and customized the system that was booted from an ISO, you may save the state and arrange for the ISO to load the customizations:
+== An alternative ==
-* Generate an APKOVL file with [[Alpine_local_backup|lbu]], <code>lbu ci</code>
+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]].
-* The "diskless" Alpine ISO images look for an APKOVL Volume in mountpoints below /media/, and may alternatively be pointed to a web server.
-* If you put the APKOVL file on a webserver, you need to supply a customized url with the <code>APKOVL</code> boot parameter.
-Notes:
+== See also ==
-* Any packages you add to /etc/apk/world of your lbu will automatically be installed in the live system.
+* [[Directly booting an ISO file]]
-* See [[Alpine_Linux_package_management#Local_Cache]] about managing included packages.
+* [[How to make a custom ISO image with mkimage]]
-* If you don't have a web server you can run busybox's httpd temporarily - <code>busybox httpd -p 127.0.0.1:80</code>
-* See [[Alpine_local_backup|lbu]] about how to customize it to cover files outside of <code>/etc</code>.
-* 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.
-== Testing your ISO image ==
-[[Qemu#Live_mode| Qemu]] is useful for a quick test of ISO image customizations.
 [[Category:Package Manager]]
 [[Category:ISO]]