How to install on Netbook

[raymonde]

Hi.

Does anyone know how to install a build on a netbook without a cd drive?

Since many People today have netbooks without cd drives (me too) I am wondering how to do this.
Of course I can run a usb live version on a netbook, but that is still very slow.


Can anyone help me with this please?

[Robert Schweikert-2]

On 03/01/2012 10:39 PM, raymonde wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Does anyone know how to install a build on a netbook without a cd drive?
>
> Since many People today have netbooks without cd drives (me too) I am
> wondering how to do this.
> Of course I can run a usb live version on a netbook, but that is still very
> slow.

If you have a live system just add yast2-liveinstaller to your build.
Once the system is running you can can run the live-installer to install
the system on your netbook.

You can also create an oem image and then dump it on to the drive of the
netbook.

2 options here, put the oem image, .raw file on a stick and have alive
stick, then while running the live system dump the .raw file to the
drive of the netbook

dd if=MyImage.raw of=DEVIC_PATH_FOR_NETBOOK_DRIVE bs=32k

or put the raw image onto the stick with the live image as a file, same
dd command.

HTH,
Robert



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[raymonde]

Thank you very much for your detailed reply Robert

I will try this right away.

[raymonde]

Got it working. Thanks a lot

[raymonde]

Is it possible to get the source code for the usb "image writer" ??

I read here that it's open source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Studio_ImageWriter

but since I can't find it via google I'm thinking that might be wrong.

What license is  the image writer published under, and am I allowed to make my own modifications to it and redistribute it along with the usb image of my distro?


Best wishes

[James T.]

On 03/05/2012 07:19 AM, raymonde wrote:
> Is it possible to get the source code for the usb "image writer" ??
>
> I read here that it's open source,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Studio_ImageWriter
>
> but since I can't find it via google I'm thinking that might be wrong.

It's at https://github.com/openSUSE/kiwi/tree/master/tools/burner.

> What license is  the image writer published under, and am I allowed to make
> my own modifications to it and redistribute it along with the usb image of
> my distro?

And this is the license
https://github.com/openSUSE/kiwi/blob/master/LICENSE.

Cheers,
James T.

[raymonde]

Thank you.  James.
Cheers

[Victor Hugo]

Hi Robert, i has a LiveCD (.iso file) from my SuseStudio bulid, and i want install over network. i did this

- Share my LiveCD with NFS (Windows 2008 Server R2), the iso and extract the iso.
- Boot the client machine using a Net Installation from Suse
- Point of the repositories to NFS folder.

But it dont work....the installation does not recognize the repositories files.

is it possible?? because after i can install over network, i want boot the client with PXE...and made this installation....without any CD/DVD´s

I tried ask in suse Forum but, i dont have any solution

[Robert Schweikert-2]

Hi,

On 03/12/2012 10:22 AM, Victor Hugo wrote:

> Hi Robert, i has a LiveCD (.iso file) from my SuseStudio bulid, and i want
> install over network. i did this
>
> - Share my LiveCD with NFS (Windows 2008 Server R2), the iso and extract the
> iso.
> - Boot the client machine using a Net Installation from Suse
> - Point of the repositories to NFS folder.
>
> But it dont work....the installation does not recognize the repositories
> files.

A live image is NOT a repository, i.e. it does not contain any packages.
The live system can only be installed with the yast2-live-installer when
the system is running.
>
> is it possible?? because after i can install over network, i want boot the
> client with PXE...and made this installation....without any CD/DVD´s

If you want a PXE environment you need to build a PXE image.

HTH,
Robert

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