Need to make a new installation disk/DVD from existing installed system

Hi
I hope that I have the right thread here!

I am running 11.2 - sort of.
I have made many changes to the currently installed system on my HDD, but now (for the first time!) I have someone that wants to have my same install to be available.

What is the best way to do this?

I am more of a user than a geek - so I looked around at the YaST Product Creator, as well as Image Creator, but after the second dialogue box that came up, I didn’t trust myself to carry through. Also, in my documentation and helps (I have quite a list) I don’t readily see where and how to make an image that can be effectively used as an installer.

What I need to to do is this (in a nutshell)

  1. Make an installation disk, that is bootable, to over-write an existing MS-Win 7 installation
  2. The “new” SuSE installation disk should contain all the programs and apps that I currently have installed.

I have thought of using my original install disk, and then updating from repos, but I have chopped and changed these so much that I can’t quite guarantee that the install will be the same.

I remember reading about being able to do a kernel dump - but is that live and bootable, and can one install to a new system? What further complicates matters is that the architecture of the two PCs differ quite a bit - so I am really not sure what to do here…
http://forums.opensuse.org/images/smiliesnew/sad.png

ANYONE - PLEASE HELP!!!

Hi
Have you looked at using Autoyast (or kiwi) to create your image
http://doc.opensuse.org/projects/YaST/openSUSE11.2/


Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (i586) Kernel 2.6.32.24-0.2-pae
up 1:28, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.04
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

On 2010-12-12 02:36, krlvorster wrote:
>
> Hi
> I hope that I have the right thread here!

Autoyast can do all that, but it needs learning. Basically, you save a list
of installed packages, plus some configuration settings. When you boot the
normal installation dvd, it sees or is pointed to that file, and does a
similar installation.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

@malcolm
Hi! Thanks - I had a look, and it makes sense. However, will it work for different architectures?
The target machine is a 64 bit, but mine is 32-bit, as well as still running on IDE-HDDs, whereas the target is SATA, 2TB. I’m not sure of the other specs on the machine, not even whether the guy has decent internet connections - this is South Africa - nothing is for sure, for very long… Otherwise, I would have downloaded the 11.3 installation ISO for him already - but try to download 1GB every 4 hours - don’t forget, according to the Gov. this side, we are “state of the art” and comparable to the rest of the world… S******

Will this play a major role, IYO?

@Carlos:
Oh Lizard on the Mountain - this makes me even more confused - I am not sure at all about his one at all…
Talk to me, Oh Toothless One - but keep it simple!

Hi
I would do an 11.3 version and use SUSE Studio, make a live bootable
DVD that can be installed from;
http://susestudio.com


Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (i586) Kernel 2.6.32.24-0.2-pae
up 3:27, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

On 2010-12-12 04:06, krlvorster wrote:
>
> @Carlos:
> Oh Lizard on the Mountain - this makes me even more confused - I am not
> sure at all about his one at all…
> Talk to me, Oh Toothless One - but keep it simple!

I can’t :slight_smile:

You have too many limitations and I know too little about autoyast. You
will have to try for yourself :slight_smile:


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

I’ve never used Susestudio - but it might well be the better option to take.

As for Autoyast, it should work for you here. The differences in hardware and architecture should be able to be worked around. Create and save your autoyast file. Edit it to ensure it looks right - most if it will be self explanatory. Put this onto a usb thumbdrive, or paste it as a web page somewhere, and use the autoyast= option when you do the install. The installer will read the autoyast and install the packages given in it. The hardware on the new machine will be detected by the installer as normal, so the differences in drive controllers, network cards, etc. should not matter - mainly you are after the list of packages.

You might find the following additional notes helpful:
Suse 10.3 Network Install - Lyceum

Cheers,
Lews Therin

IMHO, follow Lews’ suggestion to Autoyast. I’ve used this once to achieve what you want (when I had to rebuild my server ). These days I use ‘dd’ , but since you say you’re more of the user type, I think this needs to much manual interference.

I am not extremely well versed in computers, so please bear with me. I am seeking a way to create install disks for some programs I have purchased/downloaded from the internet on my old laptop. My situation is, my ex-roommate had installed a keylogger on my current laptop, and I am going to do a system restore and clean up on my current laptop. Is it possible to make an install cd for these programs, so that I can consolidate what I use to one machine? I can not afford to re-purchase these programs.

IF, it is possible, can someone please help me through it.

On 2012-04-26 08:46, BrianMcCaig wrote:

> IF, it is possible, can someone please help me through it.

I think you should post a new thread with an appropriate title.

I’ll restrain from commenting anything else because of that, and because I
don’t have it clear; but my guess so far is that you need to hire somebody
to do it.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)