The Imagebuilder; Overview Of The Pos_Image Packages - Novell SLRS 8 Admin Manual

8 The imageBuilder

Contents
8.1 Overview of the POS_Image Packages
8.2 Operating System Images
8.3 Installing imageBuilder
8.4 Copying the SLRS CDs into a Central Archive
8.5 Configuring the imageBuilder
8.6 Prebuilt Standard Images
The imageBuilder software was designed to provide an easy-to-use interface
for creating operating system images. Using the imageBuilder, the created im-
age is automatically featured to work on Point of Sale (POS) cash register sys-
tems. To work with the imageBuilder, at least the main package POS_Image-
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Builder and one of the boot packages as well as one of the image packages
(refer to Section 8.1) must be installed.
The basic command line tool providing all features needed for handling oper-
ating system images is called:
scr [ Options ]
The name scr means setup cash register. For a detailed description refer to
Chapter 10 on page 107.

8.1 Overview of the POS_Image Packages

The software to handle the images was bundled into RPMs with the base name
POS_Image. SUSE provides the POS imageBuilder tool, several prebuild POS
images, and so-called POS image description trees for administrative purposes
which will be installed during the AS installation. POS images are the software
that is run on the POS clients. These should not be confused with the boot
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The imageBuilder and the corresponding POS Image Packages will be installed, by selecting
"SLRS Admin server Image Building System" as software selection during the installation of
the SLRS software. For further information refer to Section
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