Copying The Slrs Cds Into A Central Archive; Configuring The Imagebuilder - Novell SLRS 8 Admin Manual

8 The imageBuilder
Note when installing:
If you have received a SUSE LINUX Option Pack CD, follow the instruc-
tions that come with this CD.
If the name of an RPM file contains the version number and the archi-
tecture for which it was built, specify the entire RPM file name in your
rpm command line.
After succesfully installing the imageBuilder, find the scr tool in your path
and in the main tree at /opt/SLES/POS. After succesfully installing the corre-
sponding image description package for the netboot and the minimal image
as shown in the example above, find the image description directory at:
/opt/SLES/POS/system

8.4 Copying the SLRS CDs into a Central Archive

To use the imageBuilder and to build an image, software is needed. The
imageBuilder is part of the SUSE LINUX Retail Solution (SLRS) CD set, which
is based on the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES). The first step is to
gather all SLRS CDs into a single installation source tree. Start with CD1, for
example, /opt/SLES/dists/slrs-i386/CD1, and copy everything from CD1 to
this directory. Do the same procedure for the United Linux CDs, for example,
/opt/SLES/dists/ul-i386/CD1, /opt/SLES/dists/ul-i386/CD2, etc. If you
have any United Linux Service Pack or SUSE LINUX Option Pack CDs, do the
same with these CDs.
8.5 Configuring the imageBuilder
The software packages used to build an image are RPM-based and obtained
from the SUSE LINUX SLRS CD set. For imageBuilder to work correctly, specify
the path where it can find the needed packages.
The configuration file for imageBuilder can be found at:
/etc/opt/SLES/POS/AdminServer.conf
The file is ASCII, line-based, and contains information in the simple key=value
format. Edit AdminServer.conf and enter the CD paths corresponding to the
installation source tree to which you have copied the SUSE LINUX SLRS CDs.
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