Need help creating a custom ISO

Hi, I posted on reddit also but no replies so I’m posting here too;

I’m looking to have a simplified custom openSUSE tumbleweed .iso created by open build service.

All I want is LXQT (and its base apps from the LXQT pattern) with a custom openbox theme, nice looking wallpaper and custom cursors. Base, enhanced_base, x11 and fonts pattern plus of course yast2-firstboot in the normal openSUSE TW installation order.

Flatpak and the mobile pattern should also be included if installing on a laptop. This yast thing might also be useful for providing a nice GUI for installing and updating applications and the OS, and as a modern responsive control panel, I don’t know.

No Firefox, instead Brave browser with the debloat custom settings from privacyguides.

And of course automatic update notifications every week, like any normal OS should have.

A cool extra but not necessary option would be to make the installable apps from the recommended tools section on privacyguides optionally installable when installing the OS. Maybe labwc and wayland &/ some neat window managers like hyprland or even dwm would be cool options to have also.

This should be simple and straightforward and take no more than a few minutes to build using the openSUSE open build service, right?

My only small problem is that I can’t seem to find the simplified form in the open build service to do this simple task. I tried, but it’s all containers, images, templates, etc. and I can’t find simple custom .iso maker… pls help

Do not you want exactly the customized image? Start with the standard one and adjust as needed.

yes. how exactly?

I’ve tried this exact procedure:

  1. In OBS click Create then ISO

  2. Select Tumbleweed
    Select LXQT under desktop environments. Choose wallpaper, theme & cursor theme.
    Select Brave under web-browsers and add custom debloated settings.
    Leave the non-intrusive silent system update notifications checkbox under YAsT options checked

  3. Click Build ISO and select x86_64, wait a split second for it to build then create a neat netboot iPXE URL: obs.dev/fgsfds

  4. Boot into that old pc and click escape while booting then choose netboot, type the URL: obs.dev/fgsfds

  5. Select language, keyboard layout, create a user + superuser, partition disk, connect wifi

  6. Realize I want dwl on this computer instead, change it in the installer in a split second

  7. Click install, go make a cup of coffee, all done installing when i come back

  8. Go to OBS, create another iso, this time auto-installing slowroll with silent updates and a secret superuser password only I know and a user without password, a basic preconfigured ad-blocking web browser with a few custom bookmarks and office icon on desktop; obs.dev/grm

  9. Call grandma, tell her to dust-off that old computer of hers and instruct her to boot the URL obs.dev/grm

  10. Wake up… obs.dev avaliable for registration… wrong timeline, back to sleep.

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