October ISO

October ISO is the official repository for generating installation ISO files for October Linux.

It works with archiso (via mkarchiso) so generation is intended to be done on Arch Linux or Arch-based systems. The script requires sudo and network access.

Quickstart

To generate a new release ISO with the latest release of the installer, you can run:

git clone https://github.com/october-os/october-iso.git
cd october-iso
./mkiso.sh release

This will fetch the latest installer release and generate a new ISO file in the latest-release directory.

Generating a new ISO

To generate a new ISO, run the script mkiso.sh.

• Without arguments, it will create a build directory with a development ISO inside. This activates the virtiofs mount for development and adds the installer directory for it.
• With the argument release, it fetches the latest installer release and it generates a new ISO in the latest-release directory with the installer bundled inside. This also removes all the development specific things from the ISO.

Repository structure

archiso

The archiso directory is where the ISO profile resides.

Files in archiso/installer-profile are necessary for the configuration of the ISO as well as airootfs that is considered the root of the ISO.

docs/packages

docs/packages is the directory with the official package lists that are used by the installer on top of the base Arch packages.

• base.md are packages in the official package repositories
• aur.md are AUR packages.