These are the basic needed files and folders to build CachyOS system.

buildiso

buildiso is used to build CachyOS ISO.

Arguments

$ ./buildiso.sh -h
Usage: buildiso [options]
    -c                 Disable clean work dir
    -h                 This help
    -p <profile>       Buildset or profile [default: kde]
    -v                 Verbose output to log file, show profile detail (-q)

• Uses the same signature that normal repo and has no mirrors package to install.

sudo pacman -Syy

Install necessary packages:

sudo pacman -S archiso mkinitcpio-archiso git squashfs-tools --needed

Clone:

git clone https://github.com/cachyos/cachyos-live-iso.git cachyos-archiso
cd cachyos-archiso

Build

sudo ./buildiso.sh -p kde -v

As the result iso appears at the out folder