How to make own Haiku's distro

I have heard that the haiku developers dislike people making distributions of Haiku. It apparently screams linux, if you know what I mean..

Just saying..

Have a look at the link Humdinger gave. Each link on that page represents a step in creating a customised build of Haiku; click on each link open up a guide that will help you to complete that step.

The last step is Building Haiku using Jam, which will crate a disk image of Haiku that you have customised in earlier steps. You can boot off that disk image like you would with the official image.

"jam haiku-cd" should build a bootable CD iso file.
"jam haiku-anyboot-image" should build a bootable image file usable for either CD or USB key.

~> jam haiku-cd
/boot/home/Jamfile: No such file or directory

don't know how to make haiku-cd
...
found 1 target(s)...
...
can't find 1 target(s)...

~>

I need the "Jamfile" how can obtain this?

Jam @haiku-anyboot @haiku-cd the @ is important

sorry dude I had a stupid moment

first question did you check out the trunk ?

did you add 2 folders to your system to build hybrids ?

did you configure those folders

also

jam is the " build this command" everything behind it is the how to build and what to build

so

jam -j12 -q @alpha-cd

build 12 threads stop on errors the alpha iso image

conversly you could skip the j12 and the q and just type

jam @alpha-cd

theres a whole bunch of these arguments you can set.

anyways basics

jam

@alpha-anyboot
@alpha-raw
@alpha-cd

Those will build the Alpha images with webpositive, wonderbrush etc preinstalled

@nightly-cd
@nightly-raw
@nightly-anyboot

will build the stripped down nightly with less software

the -jxx is a way to set threads working on the build

so -j1 is one thread

-j12 is 12 threads

-q means to stop the build on any errors

-a will force the build system to rebuild all targets

Useage is like so

jam "build the following" -j12 " twelves worker threads" -a " rebuild or build all targets in the jam file" -q " stop on errors"
@alpha-cd " makes a alpha iso image

sp like this

jam -j12 -q -a @alpha-cd

Now to build haiku unless your just going for a straight build " which I haven't done in a long time now so don;t bother asking me how"

You'll need to go to the folder generated.x86gcc2 or generated.x86gcc4 you should have created those 2 folders should be in boot/home/haiku/haiku if you svn donwloaded the trunk and followed all the step on configuring for hybrids..

so in terminal cd "change directory" to the folder "example cd /boot/home/haiku/haiku/generated.x86gcc2 then use the above commands and it should build. On haiku this is pretty easy, on other OS's there a bit more invovled, since I don't build on a different OS' I am spared the headaches of doing so.