Set Up The Cd-Rom Cash Register Image; Create A Setup Directory; Create The Cr Configuration File Config.image - Novell SLRS 8 Admin Manual

12 Preparing a CD-ROM Boot Image

12.1.1 Set up the CD-ROM Cash Register Image

Normally, all files a cash register image needs are obtained from the network
controlled by a configuration file. In the case of a CD boot, all files must be
part of the CD-ROM and therefore must be prepared before the image creation
process.

12.1.2 Create a Setup Directory

Create a directory to save all the following files. For example:
mkdir /tmp/cdsetup
12.1.3 Create the CR Configuration File config.image
To enable the cdboot boot image to know which cash register image it should
load and to know how it should do this, create a CR configuration file. This
file must be named config.image.
The format corresponds to the format of the file config.<MAC Address>. In
the case of the CD-ROM boot, the following parameters are used:
IMAGE=device;name;version
CONF=src;dest,...,src;dest
PART=size;id;Mount,...,size;id;Mount
JOURNAL=ext3
DISK=device
FEATURE=The contents of the
EXTEND=The contents of the
PARAMS=Additional options of type bool
IMAGE
Specifies which image (name) should be loaded with which version (ver-
sion) and to which storage device (device) it should be linked, e.g.,
/dev/ram1 or /dev/hda2
partitioning must be performed.
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Linux Newbies: The POS client partition (device) hda2 defines the root file system "/" and
hda1 is used for the swap partition. The numbering of the hard disk device should not be
confused with the RAM disk device, where /dev/ram0 is used for the initial RAM disk and
can not be used as storage device for the second stage POS image. SUSE recommends to
use the device /dev/ram1 for the RAM disk.
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feature option
extend option
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. If the hard drive is used, a corresponding