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Creating Images with YaST
Product Creator
The YaST Product Creator is a unified graphical front-end for KIWI and Add-on Creator.
It was developed to provide image creation functionality in one place. All tools integrated
in the YaST Product Creator are still available as separate YaST modules or applications.

16.1 Prerequisites for Product Creator

Before you can create images with the YaST Product Creator, make sure you meet the
following prerequisites:
1. Install the package yast2-product-creator from the SDK under
dist.suse.de/install/SLE-11-SDK. This package needs other packages.
Make sure you fullfill all dependencies.
2. Free space. The more, the better.

16.2 Creating Images

The Product Creator uses KIWI to create an image of a product. In case you are inter-
ested in manually developing such images, refer to
To create an image, proceed as follows:
1 If you start the Product Creator for the first time, enter the configuration name
and choose the method how packages are added to the ISO image.
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