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# Erch

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## Erch is Embedded Arch

Being able to build a small image of arch for embedded purposes.

## Build chroot

Start by building a chroot via the devtools package.

    # mkarchroot -n -C pacman.conf -M makepkg-i686.conf $HOME/erch/rootfs base

After this completes then you need to package it up.

    $ cd rootfs/
    $ tar -zcf ../rootfs.tgz .

Now we create an ext[2,3,4] image

    dd if=/dev/zero of=rootfs.ext3 bs=1MB count=0 seek=1024 # seek=1024 = 1GB while seek=2048 = 2GB etc
    mkfs.ext3 -F rootfs.ext3
    mkdir mnt
    sudo mount -o loop rootfs.ext3 mnt
    tar -C mnt -zxf rootfs.tgz

This is the root file system of our arch image.

To test I used qemu.

    qemu -hda rootfs.ext3 -kernel rootfs/boot/vmlinuz-linux -initrd root/boot/initramfs-linux.img append "root=/dev/sda"

It took a while to boot and ran into some errors about a read only file system.

## What's next

Getting a minimal group (pacman -S minimal)

Different categories for minimal:

minimal- | packages
--- | ---
busybox | busybox
uclibc | uclibc

- Making build scripts to ease the pain of all these commands. I really like the installer for Arch so maybe something similar to that.
- getting ABS going to rebuild the system to makepkg specs.

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