SPS live TTY ISO (2026-08-31)

Bootable hybrid ISOs for SPS. Flash, boot to a TTY, mount a destination filesystem on /mnt, and run setup.

I wrote the installer (setup) and the ISO builder (mkiso). Package definitions are in sps-core and sps-extra.

Images

• sps-live-tty.iso (509M) — recipes plus a host seed compiler and kernel modules. This is the one to flash for a daily-driver install. setup builds packages from source on the live system into /mnt.
• sps-live-tty-slim.iso (27M) — recipes and BusyBox only. Useful to try the installer UI; it cannot compile without a compiler.

Firmware blobs are omitted (they are huge). Rebuild locally with mkiso --with-firmware if you need them on the live disc. NVIDIA still needs a matching kernel after first boot.

A Plasma install compiles Qt and KDE from source and takes a long time. The disc does not partition disks and never runs grub-install unless you pass --install-bootloader (it still will not guess a disk).

Flash

dd if=sps-live-tty.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync

QEMU (serial console):

qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom sps-live-tty.iso -m 2G -nographic

SHA-256

a506d3d3aa7e3fef89b36bc7439d2493ec9b1a8084bbe6ea05acc8c24e295665  sps-live-tty.iso
797eca2b74a261a7186bc23448fa89329380804719475bcfe25115136b7b46a7  sps-live-tty-slim.iso