[opensuse] What does "Installation from images" mean?
Hello, I am in the process of installing openSUSE 12.2 in a Test environment and I am bit confused as to what "Installation from images" stand for. Can someone elaborate what this function provides or a reference (or references) to an online documentation? Best Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-09-26 18:39, General Mail wrote:
Hello,
I am in the process of installing openSUSE 12.2 in a Test environment and I am bit confused as to what "Installation from images" stand for. Can someone elaborate what this function provides or a reference (or references) to an online documentation?
It doesn't matter to you, just that it may be faster :-) An image is a collection of files from a set of packages, already prepared for direct copy to the system being installed. It is faster than installing package by package. The main part of the system can be installed from images, not all. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBjSi4ACgkQIvFNjefEBxr7DACglp/UMzY/043N+8W/qUhp871y 7L8AmgPPx+oiA/tL8ilrm8aSdsDk2IMn =PSZ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 9/26/2012 2:32 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2012-09-26 18:39, General Mail wrote:
Hello,
I am in the process of installing openSUSE 12.2 in a Test environment and I am bit confused as to what "Installation from images" stand for. Can someone elaborate what this function provides or a reference (or references) to an online documentation?
It doesn't matter to you, just that it may be faster :-)
An image is a collection of files from a set of packages, already prepared for direct copy to the system being installed. It is faster than installing package by package. The main part of the system can be installed from images, not all.
Thanks for the tid bit of information. However, how are these packages created? How do you point to them during installation? Structure of Images? Images are ISOs? Any documentation? Best Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-09-26 20:44, General Mail wrote:
On 9/26/2012 2:32 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Thanks for the tid bit of information.
However, how are these packages created? How do you point to them during installation? Structure of Images? Images are ISOs? Any documentation?
I dunno and I don't care :-) They work, yast installer knows how to use them, and the devs know how to create them. That's all I need to know. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBjVFoACgkQIvFNjefEBxqwXgCfXryV11Ar1EE6mnUL7brxHxYl WjQAmwfCjZjLHdJnYv6wHuJHHziHNGNI =yFKb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 9/26/2012 3:15 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2012-09-26 20:44, General Mail wrote:
On 9/26/2012 2:32 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Thanks for the tid bit of information.
However, how are these packages created? How do you point to them during installation? Structure of Images? Images are ISOs? Any documentation?
I dunno and I don't care :-)
They work, yast installer knows how to use them, and the devs know how to create them. That's all I need to know.
- -- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar)
Alrighty then -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 14:44 -0400, General Mail wrote:
Installation from images
I think this is what you are looking for. http://software.opensuse.org/122/en could be mistaken but I think all of the info you need is there, also. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:SUSE_Studio may be of interest. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 9/26/2012 3:20 PM, Eric Gunther wrote:
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 14:44 -0400, General Mail wrote:
Installation from images
I think this is what you are looking for.
http://software.opensuse.org/122/en
could be mistaken but I think all of the info you need is there, also.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:SUSE_Studio
may be of interest.
Thanks, Saved for later review Best Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 14:44:37 General Mail wrote:
On 9/26/2012 2:32 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2012-09-26 18:39, General Mail wrote:
Hello,
I am in the process of installing openSUSE 12.2 in a Test environment and I am bit confused as to what "Installation from images" stand for. Can someone elaborate what this function provides or a reference (or references) to an online documentation?> It doesn't matter to you, just that it may be faster :-)
An image is a collection of files from a set of packages, already prepared for direct copy to the system being installed. It is faster than installing package by package. The main part of the system can be installed from images, not all.
Thanks for the tid bit of information.
However, how are these packages created? How do you point to them during installation? Structure of Images? Images are ISOs? Any documentation?
During building of the ISO image in the openSUSE build service, a number of small images are created from rpm. Those images can then be copied directly from the ISO to your harddisk via tar. So, there's no need to install the packages via rpm and thus your installation is much faster. Installing via rpm and via images should give the same result, it's an optimization for quicker installs. So ignore it ;) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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