Convert Opensuse Installation into an image

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Hello all,

I want to install opensuse,add/remove programs,themes,customise and then re-spin it into an image which I can carry,perhaps as a live medium.

I have heard Fedora has tools to do it.Does opensuse have any tool to do that?

Anybody here has tried it?

Thanks in advance.

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Have you seen Sign in – SUSE Studio

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Hi
Best look at getting an account on SUSE Studio;
http://susestudio.com/login

Else you need to look at kiwi;
http://en.opensuse.org/Kiwi

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.39-0.3-default
up 1 day 8:51, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.05, 0.01
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18

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Wow, that’s cool! How long does it take to get an invite?

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Couple of months for me.

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Hi,

I got an invite really quickly, maybe I was just lucky, I think it was within a few hours of requesting.

Regards,
Barry.

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Got mine already! :smiley:

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I felt suse-studio is like assembling ‘patterns’ in yast.If portions of a pattern conflict with portions of another pattern,what will happen?
Like,a KDE desktop will give me amarok,but to be able to play mp3,I need uncrippled amarok,which may be in a different pattern.These things are anyway difficult to automate.
I have used suse-studio and my impressions are superficial at best at this stage.Above may be possible.

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Hi
You can add repositories or upload your own rpms to overcome this.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.39-0.3-default
up 2 days 16:34, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.07
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18

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[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;2083210]Hi
You can add repositories or upload your own rpms to overcome this.

When I added,I was hit with incompatibility problem.Hopefully what can go in a Desktop installation should also go in Appliance creation.Thanks.

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Hi
Sure, as long as the rpms are openSUSE for the release your building
and you have all the dependencies met.

Do you have an example of what you uploaded?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.39-0.3-default
up 3 days 23:52, 3 users, load average: 0.58, 0.44, 0.56
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18

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Really sorry for the delay.
I have been exploring susestudio now and seeing now what I had failed to see the first time.
You do not need the fedora functionality of conversion of installed system in opensuse 11.2.More than that is available in susestudio.
Thank you and susestudio.