[opensuse] Customized cd creation
Hi Everyone, I have been evaluating Fedora Core 5 (customising wherever necessary) for use in my organisation. However, recently, I have been looking at OpenSuse as well, and it seems to be very user friendly. However, there are the 5 cds to use, and I am still just beginning with OpenSuse. Thats why I would like to know a few things if you could help me out: * How well does wine run: which version is it? I am talking about packaged rpms of course. I did try on suse 9.3: their own packaged version seemed to be a bit old, and the version I compiled by downloading from winehq did not work well with ies4linux configuration. * Has anyone tried to create customised installation cds for OpenSuse? I did that for Fedora Core 5 recently, with a bunch of rpms from extras, livna, and a few of my own rpms. That feature is useful, but not essential. However, being able to do a network install (a local network install, not from the official mirrors). I am sure that Suse should support that, I still have to RTFM, so if you have any quickstart tips, I would be happy to hear them. Thanks, thats all my questions for now, I hope to hear from you soon. Regards, Prajjwal Message Disclaimer: This electronic message may contain confidential information. If you have received it in error, please immediately inform the sender and delete the mail and any attachments. Unless it relates to the official business of UMN, any opinions, views and other information expressed in this document are those of the individual sender. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:45:57AM +0545, Prajjwal Devkota wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have been evaluating Fedora Core 5 (customising wherever necessary) for use in my organisation. However, recently, I have been looking at OpenSuse as well, and it seems to be very user friendly. However, there are the 5 cds to use, and I am still just beginning with OpenSuse.
Actualy there are 6 CDs to use (or 1 DVD)
Thats why I would like to know a few things if you could help me out: * How well does wine run: which version is it? I am talking about packaged rpms of course. I did try on suse 9.3: their own packaged version seemed to be a bit old, and the version I compiled by downloading from winehq did not work well with ies4linux configuration.
I do not use wine, but I do know that 9.3 is pretty old. 10.1 is much more recent.
* Has anyone tried to create customised installation cds for OpenSuse?
Yes. http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs and http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_SUSE_based_distribution
I did that for Fedora Core 5 recently, with a bunch of rpms from extras, livna, and a few of my own rpms.
use the -a option in makeSUSEdvd
That feature is useful, but not essential. However, being able to do a network install (a local network install, not from the official mirrors). I am sure that Suse should support that, I still have to RTFM, so if you have any quickstart tips, I would be happy to hear them.
Well, RTFM first, then boot from the Net Boot Image: http://openSUSE.org
Thanks, thats all my questions for now, I hope to hear from you soon.
Regards, Prajjwal
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Hi Houghi, First of all, thanks for your reply. On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:07 +0100, houghi wrote:
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:45:57AM +0545, Prajjwal Devkota wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have been evaluating Fedora Core 5 (customising wherever necessary) for use in my organisation. However, recently, I have been looking at OpenSuse as well, and it seems to be very user friendly. However, there are the 5 cds to use, and I am still just beginning with OpenSuse.
Actualy there are 6 CDs to use (or 1 DVD)
Hmm, I was not talking about the addon cd, we poor people out here have VSAT links to go through, so we tend to be economical about bandwidth :(.
Thats why I would like to know a few things if you could help me out: * How well does wine run: which version is it? I am talking about packaged rpms of course. I did try on suse 9.3: their own packaged version seemed to be a bit old, and the version I compiled by downloading from winehq did not work well with ies4linux configuration.
I do not use wine, but I do know that 9.3 is pretty old. 10.1 is much more recent.
Will check it out... anyone else know though? Thanks for the response anyways.
* Has anyone tried to create customised installation cds for OpenSuse?
Yes. http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs and http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_SUSE_based_distribution
Great! I hope to have my own suse install cds too now, in addition to the fedora ones, hehe. By the way, do you know if pam_mount works well with suse? Its useful for auto home directory mounting in active directory cases, unless suse already has something better configured.
I did that for Fedora Core 5 recently, with a bunch of rpms from extras, livna, and a few of my own rpms.
use the -a option in makeSUSEdvd
Will check that out.
That feature is useful, but not essential. However, being able to do a network install (a local network install, not from the official mirrors). I am sure that Suse should support that, I still have to RTFM, so if you have any quickstart tips, I would be happy to hear them.
Well, RTFM first, then boot from the Net Boot Image: http://openSUSE.org
Thanks, thats all my questions for now, I hope to hear from you soon.
Regards, Prajjwal
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Disclaimers like this are useless. I can not recieve anything in error. All that I recieve was send to me on purpose. If it contains any confidential information then it is up to you to keep it that way. The moment I recieve it, it isn't confidential anymore.
So how do we know this message is official business of UMN? I asume it is.
houghi
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Thats why I would like to know a few things if you could help me out: * How well does wine run: which version is it? I am talking about packaged rpms of course. I did try on suse 9.3: their own packaged version seemed to be a bit old, and the version I compiled by downloading from winehq did not work well with ies4linux configuration.
I do not use wine, but I do know that 9.3 is pretty old. 10.1 is much more recent.
Will check it out... anyone else know though? Thanks for the response anyways.
http://en.opensuse.org/Wine Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Prajjwal Devkota wrote:
However, being able to do a network install (a local network install, not from the official mirrors). I am sure that Suse should support that, I still have to RTFM, so if you have any quickstart tips, I would be happy to hear them.
No problem at all - I do all installation from a local NFS server. When you boot the suse install-image (using your favourite method - CD, PXE, USB etc), you can simply specify the following kernel options: install=nfs://server/path/CD1 (for instance). You can also install using SSH, which I find very useful: usessh=1 sshpassword=xxxx /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed email security. Starting at SFr5/month/user. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi Prajjwal On Tuesday 14 November 2006 06:00, Prajjwal Devkota wrote (shortened):
* Has anyone tried to create customised installation cds for OpenSuse? I did that for Fedora Core 5 recently, with a bunch of rpms from extras, livna, and a few of my own rpms. That feature is useful, but not essential. However, being able to do a network install (a local network install, not from the official mirrors). I am sure that Suse should support that, I still have to RTFM, so if you have any quickstart tips, I would be happy to hear them.
This depends on what you want. * Yes, you can install openSUSE via Network (SMB, NFS, FTP, HTTP, ...) * Yes, you can customize your openSUSE: + create an Add on installation source if you just want to add some of your own packages: http://en.opensuse.org/Add_Package_Repositories_to_YaST http://en.opensuse.org/Inst-source-utils => create_update_source.sh + create a full customized installation source (even without or just some small user interaction): http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_doc/index.html
Thanks, thats all my questions for now, I hope to hear from you soon.
I hope this is enough documentation for you... ;-) Greetings, Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Thank you Lars and all the rest! What you sent me seems to have most of what I was asking about (except if anyone had tried pam_mount or used any other method for automatic directory mounting in active directory/centralised authentication-- idle curiosity once again ). I look forward to testing out my new distribution for internal use. If the customisation process is as simple as outlined in the documentation, I definitely look forward to it :). Now, I have a lot of reading to do, hehe. Best Regards, Prajjwal On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 13:22 +0100, Lars Rupp wrote:
Hi Prajjwal
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 06:00, Prajjwal Devkota wrote (shortened):
* Has anyone tried to create customised installation cds for OpenSuse? I did that for Fedora Core 5 recently, with a bunch of rpms from extras, livna, and a few of my own rpms. That feature is useful, but not essential. However, being able to do a network install (a local network install, not from the official mirrors). I am sure that Suse should support that, I still have to RTFM, so if you have any quickstart tips, I would be happy to hear them.
This depends on what you want. * Yes, you can install openSUSE via Network (SMB, NFS, FTP, HTTP, ...) * Yes, you can customize your openSUSE: + create an Add on installation source if you just want to add some of your own packages: http://en.opensuse.org/Add_Package_Repositories_to_YaST http://en.opensuse.org/Inst-source-utils => create_update_source.sh
+ create a full customized installation source (even without or just some small user interaction): http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_doc/index.html
Thanks, thats all my questions for now, I hope to hear from you soon.
I hope this is enough documentation for you... ;-)
Greetings, Lars
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