1---
 2title: "Arch Spin pt. 1 — The perfect bootable"
 3subtitle: "There's no such thing . . . yet"
 4author: Amolith
 5description: "I started trying to think of a distro that fit all my daily needs that I could take on a flash drive with me wherever I went and I couldn't"
 6date: 2018-08-15T10:38:00-04:00
 7draft: false
 8cover: /assets/pngs/arch-spin/pt-1.png
 9categories:
10  - Technology
11tags:
12  - Arch Linux
13  - Arch Spin
14---
15
16Today I had an orthodontist appointment and a voice lesson. The
17appointment was at 15:00 and the voice lesson at 16:00. I got to the
18orthodontist's office 10 minutes early, was told to right to the back
19(like always), I sat down in the seat, and the orthodontist came over
20after a few minutes with another patient. He looked at my teeth, had me
21put my retainers in, checked how they fit, then said I don't ever need
22to come back (unless I do need to). That all took about 7 or 8 minutes.
23My voice lesson was ~5 minutes away so I had an hour to kill. I drove to
24the college (where the lesson was), went into the computer lab, and
25booted my [multibootable](http://multibootusb.org/) bootable.
26
27I went through the distros I had and chose the [i3 spin of
28Manjaro,](https://manjaro.org/category/community-editions/i3/)
29forgetting that it hadn't written correctly and was corrupt. I went
30through a couple of other distros that were as well and settled on
31[Parrot Home.](https://www.parrotsec.org/download-home.php) While I love
32Parrot Home for security reasons, it wasn't what I was looking for. I
33started trying to think of a distro that fit all my daily needs that I
34could take on a flash drive with me wherever I went and . . . I
35couldn't.
36
37I would boot it, try to install some app I'm missing (Telegram, for
38instance), find that I need to first update everything then upgrade some
39packages then have no space left to install Telegram. There isn't one
40distro I can think of that I wouldn't have to do that with. So I thought
41I'd try my hand at installing Arch on a flash drive.
42
43As I was reading, I decided I would rather make a *live* system. This
44way, I can log into whatever I need to and, as soon as I turn it off,
45whatever I did disappears. I asked around in the Arch [Telegram
46channel](https://t.me/archlinuxgroup) and was given a few pages to read
47up on the wiki as well as a youtube video. First is [building the arch
48iso,](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/archiso) [making a custom
49repo](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Custom_local_repository)
50for installing AUR packages, building them in a
51[chroot](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot)
52so you don't mess with your current setup, and the [YouTube
53videos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqV1BJtJXEA) that help tie it
54all together:
55
56## Summary
57That'll be it for this post. It was originally a lot longer but I think
58I want to keep them to a quick read so it's easier to pick up where you
59left off. I'm not sure what the next post will contain but I am sure
60that it talks about setting up your dev environment :wink: