archiso VS K-Arch

Read up on Arch iso : https://github.com/archlinux/archiso

Yes. They come from /etc/motd, and you can see the escape codes in https://github.com/archlinux/archiso/blob/master/configs/releng/airootfs/etc/motd

this is not clearly mentioned in your original post, but I assume you also would like to create a dedicated(?) installer for this potential derivative. Arch Linux (and quite a few of its derivatives) use archiso for this to create installation/ rescue media based on profiles. The default installation medium now contains archinstall, which allows for installation of systems based on profiles. I have been maintaining archiso for over 1.5 years now and it has been a lot of work so far, getting things back in shape. However, I believe it is a viable, minimal solution for the task.

Let's discuss this in private, and then post the result here. And yes, nothing changed, here is the script that Arch developers use to generate their iso.

In the meantime you can build the installation medium yourself though, if you have an Arch installation available: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/

No the default mkinitcpio doesn't have the capability to do that at all. archiso provides its own mkinitcpio hook for copytoram, which is somewhat specific to arch. https://github.com/archlinux/archiso/blob/master/archiso/initcpio/hooks/archiso

take the kde lite edition else you can replicate the btrfs setup with grub btrfs and snapshot easily on arch, I even made a graphical Installer for it https://github.com/K-arch27/K-Arch

You can basically put anything you want in the iso and build it here's my config for it as an example : https://github.com/K-arch27/K-Arch it's making an Arch iso Booting XFCE with my btrfs install script in

anyway i'll shamelessly leave the link here : https://github.com/K-arch27/K-Arch

If you are interested : https://github.com/K-arch27/k-arch