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+# FWS
+
+**FWS** est une distribution Linux live/installable basée sur **Arch Linux**, livrée sous forme d'ISO bootable BIOS/UEFI avec l'installeur graphique **Calamares** lancé automatiquement au démarrage.
+
+Le projet est construit avec une chaîne `mkarchiso` adaptée pour fonctionner **depuis Windows via WSL** (Git Bash → WSL Arch), sans nécessiter de machine Linux dédiée.
+
+---
+
+## Aperçu
+
+- **Base** : Arch Linux (rolling release)
+- **Installeur** : Calamares (compilé depuis l'AUR, servi via un repo local pacman)
+- **Affichage live** : Xorg + Openbox, lancement automatique de Calamares
+- **Boot** : BIOS (syslinux) + UEFI (systemd-boot)
+- **Compression** : squashfs (xz)
+- **Build** : Windows + WSL (Arch) ou directement depuis Arch
+
+## Prérequis
+
+### Côté Windows
+- Windows 10/11
+- WSL 2 avec une distribution **Arch Linux** installée (`Arch`, `ArchLinux`, `ArchWSL`…)
+- Git Bash (pour exécuter les scripts depuis Windows)
+
+### Côté Arch (WSL ou natif)
+Les scripts installent automatiquement les paquets nécessaires (`archiso`, `base-devel`, `git`, `reflector`, `dos2unix`).
+
+## Démarrage rapide
+
+```bash
+# 1. Préparation : compile Calamares depuis l'AUR, crée le repo local,
+# patche pacman.conf et configure les services systemd (Xorg + autostart).
+./setup-calamares.sh
+
+# 2. Build de l'ISO via mkarchiso (fusionne configs/releng + configs/baseline)
+./build.sh
+```
+
+L'ISO finale est générée dans `./out/`.
+
+Les deux scripts détectent automatiquement s'ils sont lancés depuis **Git Bash** (et basculent dans WSL en root) ou directement depuis **WSL/Arch**.
+
+## Structure du projet
+
+| Chemin | Rôle |
+|--------|------|
+| `setup-calamares.sh` | Préparation one-shot : build Calamares (AUR), repo local, services systemd, autostart Xorg + Calamares |
+| `build.sh` | Build de l'ISO via `mkarchiso` (utilisable depuis Git Bash ou WSL) |
+| `configs/releng/` | Profil principal (base ArchISO releng) |
+| `configs/baseline/` | Overlay FWS appliqué par-dessus `releng` (prioritaire) |
+| `local-repo/` | Repo pacman local généré (Calamares + dépendances AUR) |
+| `out/` | ISOs générées |
+| `fws/mkarchiso` | Binaire `mkarchiso` embarqué (fork) |
+
+## Séquence de boot de l'ISO
+
+1. Démarrage de l'ISO FWS (BIOS ou UEFI)
+2. `systemd` → autologin root sur `tty1`
+3. `xorg-start.service` → `Xorg :0`
+4. `calamares.service` → `DISPLAY=:0 calamares`
+5. **Fallback** : si les services échouent, `.zprofile` relance Xorg + Openbox + Calamares manuellement
+
+## Test rapide en QEMU
+
+```bash
+./scripts/run_archiso.sh -i out/fws-*.iso # BIOS
+./scripts/run_archiso.sh -u -i out/fws-*.iso # UEFI
+```
+
+## Personnalisation
+
+- **Paquets** : éditer `configs/releng/packages.x86_64`
+- **Overlay rootfs** : déposer les fichiers dans `configs/releng/airootfs/` ou `configs/baseline/airootfs/`
+- **Modules / séquence Calamares** : `configs/baseline/airootfs/etc/calamares/`
+- **Branding ISO** : `configs/releng/profiledef.sh` (`iso_name`, `iso_label`, `iso_publisher`…)
+
+## Dépannage
+
+- **`pacman.conf introuvable`** : vérifier que `configs/releng/pacman.conf` existe.
+- **Calamares ne démarre pas dans l'ISO** : se logger en tty (autologin root) et lancer `journalctl -u xorg-start -u calamares`.
+- **Erreurs de retours à la ligne** : `build.sh` lance `dos2unix` sur l'arborescence ; si vous éditez des fichiers depuis Windows, ce n'est pas un problème.
+- **`mkarchiso` échoue sur un paquet AUR** : relancer `./setup-calamares.sh` pour reconstruire le repo local.
+
+---
+
+## Licence & origine
+
+FWS est un fork de **[archiso](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso)** (Arch Linux), redistribué sous les termes de la **GPL-3.0-or-later**.
+
+Voir [LICENSE](LICENSE) pour le texte complet, et [AUTHORS.rst](AUTHORS.rst) pour la liste des auteurs originaux d'archiso.
+
+Les modifications spécifiques à FWS (scripts `build.sh`, `setup-calamares.sh`, overlay `configs/baseline/`, intégration Calamares + Xorg autostart, chaîne de build WSL) sont également distribuées sous GPL-3.0-or-later.
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-=======
-archiso
-=======
-
-The archiso project features scripts and configuration templates to build installation media (*.iso* images and
-*.tar bootstrap images) as well as netboot artifacts for BIOS and UEFI based systems.
-Currently creating the images is only supported on Arch Linux but may work on other operating systems as well.
-
-Requirements
-============
-
-The following packages need to be installed to be able to create an image with the included scripts:
-
-* arch-install-scripts
-* awk
-* dosfstools
-* e2fsprogs
-* erofs-utils (optional)
-* findutils
-* grub
-* gzip
-* libarchive
-* libisoburn
-* mtools
-* openssl
-* pacman
-* sed
-* squashfs-tools
-
-For running the images in a virtualized test environment the following packages are required:
-
-* edk2-ovmf
-* qemu
-
-For linting the shell scripts the following package is required:
-
-* shellcheck
-
-For generating the man pages:
-
-* python-docutils
-
-Profiles
-========
-
-Archiso comes with two profiles: **baseline** and **releng**. While both can serve as starting points for creating
-custom live media, **releng** is used to create the monthly installation medium.
-They can be found below `configs/baseline/ `_ and `configs/releng/ `_
-(respectively). Both profiles are defined by files to be placed into overlays (e.g. airootfs → the image's ``/``).
-
-Read `README.profile.rst `_ to learn more about how to create profiles.
-
-Create images
-=============
-
-Usually the archiso tools are installed as a package. However, it is also possible to clone this repository and create
-images without installing archiso system-wide.
-
-As filesystems are created and various mount actions have to be done when creating an image, **root** is required to run
-the scripts.
-
-When archiso is installed system-wide and the modification of a profile is desired, it is necessary to copy it to a
-writeable location, as ``/usr/share/archiso`` is tracked by the package manager and only writeable by root (changes will
-be lost on update).
-
-The examples below will assume an unmodified profile in a system location (unless noted otherwise).
-
-It is advised to consult the help output of **mkarchiso**:
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- mkarchiso -h
-
-Create images with packaged archiso
------------------------------------
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- mkarchiso -w path/to/work_dir -o path/to/out_dir path/to/profile
-
-Create images with local clone
-------------------------------
-
-Clone this repository and run:
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- ./archiso/mkarchiso -w path/to/work_dir -o path/to/out_dir path/to/profile
-
-Testing
-=======
-
-The convenience script **run_archiso** is provided to boot into the medium using qemu.
-It is advised to consult its help output:
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- run_archiso -h
-
-Run the following to boot the iso using BIOS:
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- run_archiso -i path/to/an/arch.iso
-
-Run the following to boot the iso using UEFI:
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- run_archiso -u -i path/to/an/arch.iso
-
-The script can of course also be executed from this repository:
-
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- ./scripts/run_archiso.sh -i path/to/an/arch.iso
-
-Installation
-============
-
-To install archiso system-wide use the included ``Makefile``:
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- make install
-
-Optional features
-
-The iso image contains a GRUB environment block holding the iso name and version. This allows to
-boot the iso image from GRUB with a version specific cow directory to mitigate overlay clashes.
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- loopback loop archlinux.iso
- load_env -f (loop)/boot/grub/grubenv
- linux (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux ... \
- cow_directory=${NAME}/${VERSION} ...
- initrd (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/initramfs-linux-lts.img
-
-Contribute
-==========
-
-Development of archiso takes place on Arch Linux' Gitlab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso.
-
-Please read our distribution-wide `Code of Conduct `_ before
-contributing, to understand what actions will and will not be tolerated.
-
-Read our `contributing guide `_ to learn more about how to provide fixes or improvements for the code
-base.
-
-Discussion around archiso takes place on the `arch-releng mailing list
-`_ and in `#archlinux-releng
-`_ on `Libera Chat `_.
-
-All past and present authors of archiso are listed in `AUTHORS `_.
-
-Releases
-========
-
-`Releases of archiso `_ are created by their current maintainers
-
-- `David Runge `_ (``991F6E3F0765CF6295888586139B09DA5BF0D338``)
-- `nl6720 `_ (``BB8E6F1B81CF0BB301D74D1CBF425A01E68B38EF``)
-
-Tags are signed using respective PGP keys.
-
-To verify a tag, first import the relevant PGP key(s):
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- gpg --auto-key-locate wkd --search-keys dvzrv@archlinux.org
-
-or
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- gpg --auto-key-locate clear,dane --locate-external-keys devnull@nl6720.me
-
-Afterwards a tag can be verified from a clone of this repository:
-
-.. code:: sh
-
- git verify-tag
-
-License
-=======
-
-Archiso is licensed under the terms of the **GPL-3.0-or-later** (see `LICENSE `_).