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BioArchLinux in ISO

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BioArchLinux ISO

Download

Download iso image file from any mirror of BioArchLinux.

Release

This iso is released monthly and built by mkarchiso.

Installation guide

Pre-installation

Partition the disks

Check the partitions, usually, you need one boot partition and one / partition.

# fdsik -l

If you want to create partitions use

# fdisk /dev/the_disk_to_be_partitioned

Format partitions

Following commands format the boot partition as fas, the root partition as ext4.

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/root_partition
# mkfs.fat /dev/boot_partition

Mount

# mount /dev/root_partition /mnt
# mount --mkdir /dev/boot_partition /mnt/boot

Installation

Select the mirrors

you can edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bio, and put the mirror you want at the top of the file.

Install essential packages

The example commands will let you use the Linux kernel, you can replace it with other kernels.

# pacstrap /mnt base-bio linux linux-firmware

pacman.conf

You can use the pacman.conf from live cd, or you should manually add bioarchlinux repo to pacman.conf

# cp /etc/pacman.conf /mnt/etc/pacman.conf

Configure the system, Reboot & Post-installation

You can view archlinux wiki, totally the same as Arch Linux.