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Support a new distro

Global variables

  • ROOTPATH: root of a USB stick mountpoint
  • KERNELDIR: the place to install the kernel
  • DATADIR: the place to install other data files, e.g. squashfs, iso files
  • ISOMNT: the mount point that the iso file is mounted to with mount_iso

How to support

You can refer to Arch Linux. What you need is:

  • install.sh: a script file describing how to install the LiveCD to USB
  • isoinfo: all info about the iso file, including where to download it, the hash checksum, and a mirror list
  • entry* files: an example is Arch Linux x86_64, for more detail, look into mkgrubcfg.sh

In isoinfo, ISOURL is the relative path to a mirror that shows the URL of the Live ISO file. You can use SHA256,SHA1 or MD5 for iso file checksum. install_live in install.sh is the bash function that handles the install of the Live ISO to the USB stick.