Re: [opensuse] Custom netboot image

CyberOrg wrote:
On 9/27/07, Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx> wrote:

Look at www.thinstation.org. They have a thinstation-o-matic where you
can make these images over the net. In our use, we download the
thinstation source and make images locally.

I think one big way they make the image smaller is the use of busybox.
That alone must account for many MB.


Our TODO: http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/KIWI-LTSP-Tasks

It is shrinking at a rapid pace, so slimming down would be targeted
very soon. You can check this and suggest the packages that could be
dropped.

https://forgesvn1.novell.com/viewsvn/kiwi-ltsp/trunk/kiwi-ltsp/ltsp/suse-10.3/config.xml?view=markup
Am I correct in that the build is from sources, not from an installed
OpenSUSE?


The kiwi uses distribution packages, no compiling. That XML file is
the configuration used that tells kiwi what packages need to be
installed in the image.

Cheers

-J
Still not managed to get the net image to boot, it loads the kernel but then sits waiting for a configuration file, not sure where it is looking for it.

Matthew




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