Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1904 mails)

[Allen Zhu <allen.jaloola@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 06:55 -0500, Larry Stotler wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Allen Zhu <allen.jaloola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > So I'll probably get something at the max in a week?
> >
> > I signed up months ago and have heard nothing.  I was able to get
> > someone with access to build me a cd, but once it was installed and I
> > added repos, it tried to install all kinds of stuff, and some things
> > didn't work right.  Since I don't have access to it, I can't build a
> > better one.  There are too many dependencies in openSUSE to do a
> > really good custom install.  Example:  I just tried to remove avahi,
> > and got way too many dependencies, so I gave up.  Something like that
> > shouldn't be so deep into the system.  I never needed it before and
> > don't now.
> >
> > I've looked into KIWI, but haven't tried it yet.
>
> I think Studio is a web wrapper around KIWI. Unless you are doing
> something odd, KIWI is rather straight forward. Out of the box, it comes
> with configurations for making DVD, VM, USB, PXE, OEM, LTSP and other
> images. It can be customized via a few XML files. BTW, it is easy to add
> repositories and packages from anywhere smart or zypper allow. I really
> like that I can check my scripts to make images in to my source control
> system, making image creation a bit more reliable and trackable.
>
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Roger, you are right.

It is a web-wrapper around KIWI. When you start the text-only version
in TestDrive online, you get a bunch of KIWI messages.

Allen
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