Hi Allan,
I really need to build a custom CD rom for our lab. But how?
I have never created a complete CD, but a customized boot image. From this I guess to know what should be done:
I'd copy the .rpm's and other files manually, if I knew how to generate a list of all dependencies.
Yes, this should be the first step. Make a directory structure as found on an orig SuSE install CD and copy all the original stuff there. The cd into the SuSE directory and type create_package_descr -o setup/descr/ -x setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV This will give you a warning "output dir: setup/descr/ is not a directory: ignoring" which you can ignore. This step is described in the AutoYaST menual, section 5.3. After this, cd into the base dir of the distribution and create the CD image: mkisofs -o ~/my-suse-install.iso -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin -c boot/loader/isolinux.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table . This image (my-suse-install.iso) can be burned and is bootable. (I tested just the last step of making a bootable CD without packages). HTH Regards Ole -- Lassen Sie Ihren Gedanken freien Lauf... z.B. per FreeSMS GMX bietet bis zu 100 FreeSMS/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail