Hi All, I've some questions about kiwi. I followed the instructions on http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick And found following things: Even if you tell kiwi to build and store intermediate results on a predefined area, kiwi uses /tmp rather intensively. So it might be a good idea either to mention it explicitly on the wiki page (for those who have /tmp on a safe and separate mointpoint) Default systems have about 200MB for /tmp, which is way to small for building with kiwi. using the latest version from the add-on repo on a 10.3 system, I tried this afternoon three setups: 1) kde kiwi --prepare /usr/share/kiwi/image/kwliveCD-suse-10.3/ --root /data/kiwi/tmp/ --add-profile KDE --logfile te rminal 2) gnome kiwi --prepare /usr/share/kiwi/image/kwliveCD-suse-10.3/ --root /data/kiwi/tmp/ --add-profile GNOME --logfile te rminal 3) small kiwi --prepare /usr/share/kiwi/image/kwliveCD-suse-10.3/ --root /data/kiwi/tmp/ --logfile terminal Both KDE and GOME ended with: Apr-17 11:58:41 <3> : Missing useradd command failed Apr-17 11:58:41 <3> : Couldn't setup image system failed Apr-17 11:58:41 <1> : Umounting path: /data/kiwi/tmp//dev/pts Apr-17 11:58:41 <1> : Umounting path: /data/kiwi/tmp//sys Apr-17 11:58:41 <1> : Umounting path: /data/kiwi/tmp//dev Apr-17 11:58:41 <1> : Umounting path: /data/kiwi/tmp//proc Apr-17 11:58:41 <3> : KIWI exited with error(s) done The third one, small strangely did not miss "useradd", and i was able to follow the instructions. In all three attemps, i used my local mirror of oss, non-oss, update and packman Without kde or gnome i succeeded in making a bootable usb-stick. However, i brought me to a login-prompt. Neither on the wiki-page, nor in the "kiwi image system system design" document i could find any reference to predefined users or the root-pwd. I know i can add my own rpm with and do user-admin in the post-scripts, but i assume that this is not the proper way to handle this.... HtH, Hans (Logfile of the kiwi-command is attached)