Comments on: YaST Tools for Creating Installation Media and Appliances

By: Saint DanBert

Saint DanBert — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:39:49 +0000

I have a running OpenSUSE 10.3 workstation. I’d really like to tell YAST2
“make a CD/DVD from what I already have.” This media might best be
a live CD/DVD that I can use to recover my current system from bare metal.
My configuration works now, the CD/DVD might be able to duplicate the
partition plan, restore the system parts, and enable a fresh boot on
the old hardware.
~~~ Dan 0;-D

By: nonos

nonos — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:48:35 +0000

LiveCD Creator don’t run.
When I want to change software, Kiwi don’t find the package database !!!

I’m sad !

By: Danilo Godec

Danilo Godec — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:10:20 +0000

Hi, how ‘production ready’ is the Product Creator?

I’m trying to create an install CD with limited package selection and autoinstall, but I always end-up with unusable CD:

- if I don’t choose to sign packages, the installer says there is no repository on the CD (it requires the file ‘content.asc’, which isn’t there)
- if I choose to sign packages, the installer complains about wrong keys (how do I import & accept my own keys into the installer)

Hopefully I’ll be able to crack it soon as my deadline is closing in…

By: Jiri

Jiri — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:52:19 +0000

The name of rpm is yast2-product-creator. It includes both Product Creator and Image Creator, that are described in this article.

By: RobertZ

RobertZ — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:27:09 +0000

Hi, I would like to create a Live USB stick with the above shown yast2 image creator.

Where is the yast2-image creator rpm?
I could not find it in:
- the 10.3 default repos
- the build service search system
- the repo of jsuchome
- google

At least I found an alternative:
- http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick
- /usr/share/doc/packages/kiwi/kiwi.pdf
- http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/KIWI

By: roastedmnm

roastedmnm — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:28:57 +0000

(Took me a while to check back.)

Looking forward to the upgrade. Hopefully the new version will hit the Backports:/ soon.

By: Jiri

Jiri — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:43:52 +0000

True. With new versions, there was a change of API in some low-level module (yast2-storage, to be precise), so to upgrade to those you’ll need to upgrade more of the YaST. I’m not sure if those required others were already released, but I hope they should be available in a few weeks.

Meanwhile, you can play with the modules from 10.3 (including the updates)…

By: roastedmnm

roastedmnm — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:58:09 +0000

I’m playing with this now. Unfortunately when attempting to install the newest versions (2.16.x)theres a conflict with the shipped version of YaST (2.15.x) and I was unable to resolve it on SuSE 10.3.

By: Stano

Stano — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:17:01 +0000

Yes, these YaST modules are able to do the same using GUI. They also provide a command line interface with high-level functionality, like signing a add-on product with a single invocation.

By: Mirko

Mirko — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:39:50 +0000

And here I found a solution which might be scriptable:

http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Edu-CD#The_look_behind:_the_development_of_the_Edu-CD

seems the education project has already released the first ISO images created with the scripts given in this tutorial!