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# ALMA - Arch Linux Mobile Appliance
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This tool installs Arch Linux into a USB drive, making it a customized live Arch Linux bootable
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drive. It was inspired by [this](http://valleycat.org/linux/arch-usb.html) article. The USB drive
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should be bootable both by UEFI and legacy boot.
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## Installation
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You can either build the project using cargo build or install the `alma` package from AUR.
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## Requirements
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This tool should be ran from an exiting Arch Linux installations. It depends on the following tools:
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* sgdisk
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* partprobe
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* Arch install scripts
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* mkfs.fat
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* mkfs.btrfs
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Dependencies will be handled for you if you install alma from AUR.
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## Usage
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### Creation
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``` shell
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sudo alma create /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Disk-0:0
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```
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This will wipe the entire disk and create a bootable installation of Arch Linux.
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After the installation is done you can either boot from it immediately or use `arch-chroot` to
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perform further customizations before your first boot.
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### Chrooting to exiting Live USB
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``` shell
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sudo alma chroot /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Disk-0:0
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```
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### Flags
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* `-p / --extra-packages` - Specify extra packages to install. For example: `-p htop tmux`
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* `-i / --interactive` - Drop you into interactive chroot to perform further customization
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## What exactly does it do?
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This tool doesn't aspire to be a generic installer for Arch Linux. Instead, it does the minimum
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steps required to create a bootable USB with a few tweaks.
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1. Partition the disk as suggested [here](http://valleycat.org/linux/arch-usb.html). The last
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partition will be formatted as BTRFS
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1. Bootstrap the system using `pacstrap -c`. The `-c` flag will use the host's cache instead the
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drive's cache, which will speed up things when you create multiple drives. This tool will install
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the base system, grub, intel-ucode, NetworkManager and btrfs-progs
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1. Generate initramfs without the `autodetect` hook
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1. Set NetworkManager to start at boot
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1. Install GRUB in both legacy and UEFI modes
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## Similar projects
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* [NomadBSD](http://nomadbsd.org/)
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