Preparing A Cd-Rom Boot Image; Preparing The Cr Cd-Rom Boot Image - Novell SLRS 8 Admin Manual

12 Preparing a CD-ROM Boot
Image
Contents
12.1 Preparing the CR CD-ROM Boot Image
12.1.1 Set up the CD-ROM Cash Register Image
12.1.2 Create a Setup Directory
12.1.3 Create the CR Configuration File config.image
12.2 Creating the CD ISO Image
12.3 Booting the CR CD-ROM Boot Image
In environments where no network infrastructure is available for booting cash
register systems via LAN, the CD-ROM boot may help. The CD-ROM boot
option of the imageBuilder
image that is bootable according to the "El Torito" specification. The resulting
CD-ROM contains a minimal Linux system image (cdboot), a second stage
Linux system image (cash register image), and a configuration file config.image.
The configuration file controls whether the cash register image is written into
a RAM disk or if it must be placed on the hard disk of the booting node.

12.1 Preparing the CR CD-ROM Boot Image

All steps for creating a CD ISO image can be done using the scr command line
tool, but there are a few issues that must be clarified first:
Which cash register image should be used? This may be one of the
standard CR images (minimal, java, browser, desktop) or a custom image.
Is it possible to build the preferred cash register image using the scr
statement? To create a CD ISO image, test if you can build the cash
register image first.
Which features do you want to include into the cash register image?
Which system configuration files are needed for the cash register image?
If you have considered all the mentioned issues, you can start to prepare the
CD-ROM as follows.
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