Convert Archlinux to Archbang

frostyfrog · 2012-05-02 19:56:02

Does anyone know how to install Archbang whilst installing Archlinux first? Archbang was giving me all sorts of trouble when I tried to install it onto my USB drive, but I have had more success in the past with Archlinux. I decided to do a fresh install using aif (it's still installing) but I was curious if there was some easy method/how-to to get Arch to look and function exactly like AB.

Thanks!

oliver · 2012-05-02 21:52:04

you can extract the skeleton files and create a new user that would inherit the X configuration... but you'd also need to add/remove any packages that differ from what you have now to what AB comes with.

Personally, if you like the look and feel of the OB environment, I'd just create a new user and then try and work out whats missing manually (obviously, you'd need tint2/openbox/etc)

The skeleton files I mentioned are in /etc/skel and get populated into new user accounts when you use the -m flag in useradd. You'd need to download/uncompress the source files to get them (it's only 3.5mb or so and linked on the front page)

axel668 · 2012-05-03 04:39:00

it may not be exactly Archbang, but Arch Wiki offers a comprehensive Openbox guide coverin all interesting topics (automatic menu, oblogout, tint2, ...) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Op … me_control

frostyfrog · 2012-05-03 14:00:25

oliver wrote:

you can extract the skeleton files and create a new user that would inherit the X configuration... but you'd also need to add/remove any packages that differ from what you have now to what AB comes with.

I was actually kind of hoping for a list of applications, since I'm still at a vanilla install of Arch... But now that I think about it, I think there was a package list on the (old?) Gitorious repo. Maybe I will start digging through the source files and hopefully get around to writing a how-to article somewhere.

oliver wrote:

Personally, if you like the look and feel of the OB environment, I'd just create a new user and then try and work out whats missing manually (obviously, you'd need tint2/openbox/etc)

axel668 wrote:

it may not be exactly Archbang, but Arch Wiki offers a comprehensive Openbox guide coverin all interesting topics (automatic menu, oblogout, tint2, ...) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Op … me_control

I was hoping to avoid those options...

oliver · 2012-05-03 14:36:48

frostyfrog wrote:

I was actually kind of hoping for a list of applications, since I'm still at a vanilla install of Arch... But now that I think about it, I think there was a package list on the (old?) Gitorious repo. Maybe I will start digging through the source files and hopefully get around to writing a how-to article somewhere.

I may be missing something, but it sounds like you want to do exactly what the Archbang install process is automating :-)

frostyfrog · 2012-05-03 15:17:15

Yup, that's basically what I'm doing. The difference though is that my install will be 100% up-to-date/working on a usb drive as a fresh install. Well, as up-to-date as the rit.edu repo is. I tried installing AB on my usb drive, but it decided it didn't want to boot afterwards Kept dropping me to rootfs and not /dev didn't contain the usb drive, even though I specified usb before autodetect in the HOOKS section of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Last edited by frostyfrog (2012-05-03 15:32:25)

Mr Green · 2012-05-03 23:05:37

There is this

http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=2501

Not sure if it is what you are looking for....

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Convert Archlinux to Archbang

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