On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 08:29 +0100, Martin Jungowski wrote:
Hi everybody,
our company has a few Lenovo S10e Netbooks out there, all equipped with a 4GB SSD and no harddrive. They're in for a pretty rough handling and we've tried harddrives - they died after a few weeks, sometimes even a few days in the field.
Try using kiwi. IIRC, you can build images that can be dd'd to the device (I think kiwi calls them OEM images). kiwi uses an xml file to define an installed system. I use it to make images that are accessed via PXE for diskless images. I don't use X, and the images are 35 MB-ish. With kiwi, you can add what you want and rebuild until the images are a size you can live with.
From the kiwi docs:
An oem image is a virtual disk image representing all partitions and bootloader information like it exists on a real disk. The image format is the same compared to the VMX image type. All flavours explained in the VMX chapter also applies to the OEM type. The original idea of an oem image is to provide this virtual disk data to OEM vendors which now are able to deploy the system independently onto their storage media. The deployment can happen from any OS including Windows if a tool to dump data on a disk device exists. The oem image type is also used to deploy images on USB sticks because in principal it is the same workflow. kiwi has other image formats as well. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org