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Automated Deployment of
Preload Images
With KIWI you are able to create operating system images. This chapter handles the
process of deploying an system image to an empty machine. For this, you have to create
a preload image which contains a bootable RAW image. This file contains two important
parts: a partition table and the actual operating system. This RAW image will be written
to the empty hard disk and the operating system extends to the remaining disk space at
first boot.
To create such a image, see
build the ISO image, you can find the RAW file at the destination folder. There are
many possibilities to dump a raw image onto a disk.
• Plug the disk into a deployment server and just copy the image to the raw device.
• Provide the raw image by means of a HTTP or FTP server and dump it on the disk
of the client to install.
• Create a netboot image that does nothing but get the image and dump it on the disk.
This is a good method for mass deployment.
• Boot a rescue disk and do the dump manually from the rescue image.
For a quick start, it is good to use one of the methods described in
ploying system manually from rescue image"
Section 14.4.2, "Creating an Image"
(page 230).
Automated Deployment of Preload Images
(page 187). When you
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