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