CTKArchLive Downloads

ISO images

Hybrid ISO images can be:

Burnt on a CD/DVD
- With your favourite burning software
- With wodim (from cdrkit) :
  wodim -dev=/dev/sr0 ctkarchlive*.iso
Written on a storage medium (flash memory stick/card, hard disk…)
- On an Unix-like OS (GNU, BSD, Haiku…) :
  dd if=ctkarchlive*.iso of=/dev/sdX
  Change the name of the image to the right one, and /dev/sdX to the medium on which you want to write the Live. (example: /dev/sdb — NOT sdb1!)
  ⚠ All data on the storage media specified in of= will be lost!! Make no mistake, you could erase your hard disk's data!
- If you don't have an Unix-like OS (not for long, from now on ☺):
  Download win32diskimager.

I couldn't be held responsible for any problem that may occur after reading this document.

Add-ons

Since v0.5, you can copy them to the “CTKhome” partition's “addons” folder anytime.
Since v0.6, you can insert add-ons into the ISO image before burning it.
You can do that with the amazing software isomaster is.
With it, you can drag and drop add-ons in the “addons” folder of the ISO, save it, and burn it!

“CTKhome”: persistent data partition

This partition, detected using its “CTKhome” label, will be detected and used as long as it is on a storage connected on the machine when the Live boots.
It keeps the contents of /home (documents, config), and optionally add-ons, that can add packages to the Live, for instance.
It can also save all changes you did to the system.

The most common case is to create it in the remaining space of the flash drive on which the ISO was written.

There are two ways of creating it:

Using the script provided in the Live, “/install/mkhome” that you must run as root. (you can use “xsu /install/mkhome”)
Making the partition with a partitionning tool such as cfdisk, and formatting it.
I recommend ext2 on flash memory, because other FS are journaled, and regularly write on it, wearing it out. Run:
mkfs.ext2 -L CTKhome /dev/sdxy