1 CD Install

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Revision as of 21:13, 12 October 2005

This page is part of the SUPER project to enhance your standard SUSE install.

1 CD install allows you to install either a basic SUSE standard kde minimal or gnome system on 1 CD and also a SLICK modified version. Both versions can be updated using YOU. Slick can also be updated to bleeding edge code using kynaptic/apt. Additional software for standard can be installed by using the public yast repositories or the DVD version. Additional software for -modified (SLICK) can also be installed by using the public yast repositories or the DVD version or by using kynaptic, which is the prefered way for SLICK. A 1 CD install is just a base to access all the SUSE packages.

• 13.10.2005: An outage to our opensuse.linux.co.nz server is currently disabling iso downloads. For apt please use gwdg. The server should be back in the next day or so.

Standard openSUSE

Both iso's are single CD installation iso's without any modifications to the actual packages. As such these iso's are completely standard SUSE, hence they are called standard-kde and standard-minimal. More info about how to create such iso's can be found under development.

These iso's will be maintained by the SUPER team.

download

MD5sums available at
ftp://opensuse.linux.co.nz/pub/SUPER/iso/MD5SUMS
http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/ftp/pub/SUPER/iso/MD5SUMS

kde

FINAL

Kde base install on 1 CD (697 Mbyte iso 1400 MB install)
ftp://opensuse.linux.co.nz/pub/SUPER/iso/super-openSUSE-final-20051003-standard-kde.iso
http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/ftp/pub/SUPER/iso/super-openSUSE-final-20051003-standard-kde.iso

ALPHA

http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/ftp/pub/SUPER/iso/super-openSUSE-alpha1-20051004-standard-kde.iso

gnome

RC1

Gnome base install on 1 CD (680 Mbyte iso 1600 MB install)
ftp://opensuse.linux.co.nz/pub/SUPER/iso/super-openSUSE-RC1-20050912-standard-gnome.iso
http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/ftp/pub/SUPER/iso/super-openSUSE-RC1-20050912-standard-gnome.iso

Delta ISO
ftp://opensuse.linux.co.nz/pub/SUPER/iso/super-openSUSE-RC1-20050909_20050912-standard-gnome.delta.iso
http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/ftp/pub/SUPER/iso/super-openSUSE-RC1-20050909_20050912-standard-gnome.delta.iso

minimal

FINAL

Minimal install on 1 CD (296 Mbyte iso, 400 MB install)                     
ftp://opensuse.linux.co.nz/pub/SUPER/iso/super-openSUSE-final-20051004-standard-minimal.iso
http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/ftp/pub/SUPER/iso/super-openSUSE-final-20051004-standard-minimal.iso

Enhanced openSUSE

A set of iso's with SLICK modifications already included are available before the final product is out. These iso's are called -modified.iso'. The iso dated 20051001 was faulty, please redownload the iso now dated 20051003.

SLICK

Slim KDE 1 CD install with performance enhancements, Kynaptic and KLIK. Includes CK patches. Feedback please directly to andreas@linux.co.nz.

Please be aware that at firstboot during the SuSEconfig stage, the installer will prelink the entire system for the first time. This will usually take 15-30 minutes. Subsequently only updated packages will be prelinked and not the entire system making prelinking much faster.

To update use kynaptic. The 3 icons on the top bar need to be klicked one after the other. First icon refreshes the apt indexes. The second icon sets the updated packages and the third icon downloads and installs the updates. You can use Edit --> Find to search for a specific package like "fglrx " for the ati driver.

If you have a SLICK iso from September please add the following sources to /etc/apt/sources.list

rpm     http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/apt/suser-agirardet apt/10.0 super

ftp://opensuse.linux.co.nz/pub/SUPER/iso/super-SLICK-RC1-20051003-modified-kde.iso
http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/ftp/pub/SUPER/iso/super-SLICK-RC1-20051003-modified-kde.iso

It seems that still there are problems with SLICK. I've downloaded super-SLICK-RC1-20051003-modified-kde.iso, and i got no user.sel and i can not import any *.sel located in suse/setup/descr/ ... do you know how to work around this ? Thanks !

It also seems that the website http://opensuse.linux.co.nz is down << Dated 20051010 @ 7:28:05pm EST

Binary video Drivers

ATI driver: Use kynaptic to install "fglrx" (it will also get kernel-sources and gcc) and then run the following on a konsole
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/sax2-profile
Close, Test and Save the new configuration and exit sax2 and restart X

NVIDIA driver: Use kynaptic to install "nvidia" (it will also get kernel-sources and gcc) and restart X. That should be all.

Development

How to create your own 1 CD install

The iso's are done using the standard recommended Novell way. It contains a modified control.xml to have a more streamlined installation. We have tried to add /boot and /home (you can see that in the control.xml, but for some reason it ignores it, maybe a suse.de person can give us a hint? Apart from that it is a straight install of beta4. My.sel was added under suse/setup/descr, which contains the needed packages. All in all a very straight forward process.

Preparation

File locations are examples and should be changed to suit your environment or disk space.

• Create a DVD structure with Making a DVD from CDs in /yast

# makeSUSEdvd -i -s /yast

• Create the iso holding directory in /super and your iso directory in /super/SUPER

# mkdir -p /super/SUPER

• copy the important files over to the iso dir.

# cd /yast
# cp -a LIESMICH  COPYING  gpg-pubkey-0dfb3188-41ed929b.asc  LIESMICH.DOS COPYING.de gpg-pubkey-15c17deb-3f9e80c9.asc  ls-lR.gz
autorun.inf COPYRIGHT gpg-pubkey-3d25d3d9-36e12d04.asc  media.1 boot  COPYRIGHT.de gpg-pubkey-9c800aca-40d8063e.asc  pubring.gpg
content directory.yast INDEX.gz control.xml docu  LICENSE.TXT  SuSEgo.ico /super/SUPER

• Create the package directories

# mkdir /super/SUPER/suse
# cd /super/SUPER/suse
# mkdir {i586,i686,src,noarch}
# cp -a /yast/suse/setup .

Configuration

• Modify control.xml in the top dir to suit your needs. Here one of mine control.xml.

Novell control.xml documentation

• A My.sel file needs to be created following the Novell Document and you can add package names to your standard install by using apt on a XEN virtual machine you can install by following this: How to setup SUSE Linux 10.0 under Xen in SUSE Linux 9.3. That way you are able to install the needed dependencies to a machine and create the My.sel file in suse/setup/descr. After that you can copy each package from /yast/suse/i586 or /yast/suse/noarch or /yast/suse/i686 to /super/SUPER/suse/i586. Here is an example. My.sel.minimal and My.sel.kde

Creation of iso

• The following will create an iso out of SUPER as SUPER.iso in /super. As you can see if there is a SUPER.kde directory it will also create a SUPER.kde.iso when given the value kde as $1. This will be extended to cater for gnome. The optimized SUPER iso's are going to be similar as the only difference should be a seperate control.xml and different packages.
• You need to have installed, mkisofs and "Yast2 autoinstall tools".

#!/bin/bash
#script to create iso's for SUPER and 1CD standard

cd /super
if [ "$1" == "kde" ]
then
export SUFF=".kde"
else
export SUFF=""
fi

cd SUPER$SUFF/
echo "SUPER" > media.1/media
echo `   date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` >>media.1/media
echo "1" >>media.1/media
ls -A1 > directory.yast
cd suse
create_package_descr -x setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV -l english -l spanish -l french -l german -l czech -l hungarian -l italian
cd ..
rm INDEX.gz ls-lR.gz
ls -lR > ls-lR
gzip ls-lR
find . > INDEX
gzip INDEX
cd ..
mkisofs -p "SUPER" -P "openSUSE, opensuse@opensuse.org" -r -T -J -pad -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b \
boot/loader/isolinux.bin -c boot/boot.catalog -hide boot/boot.catalog -hide-joliet boot/boot.catalog -V SU810.001 -o SUPER$SUFF.iso \
SUPER$SUFF

• In case you need to modify the initrd to for example put an autoinstall.xml into it here a hint how to manipulate it (took me a lot of googling to sort this out)

# cp -a /super/SUPER/boot/loader/initrd /tmp/initrd.gz
# gzip -dc /tmp/initrd.gz >/tmp/initrd.img
# mkdir /tmp/work-initrd; cd /tmp/work-initrd
# cpio -i < /tmp/initrd.img # Extract it from cpio archive
# cp YOUR_INFO_FILE info
# find . | cpio -H newc -o > /tmp/initrd.img
# gzip -c /tmp/initrd.img >/tmp/initrd
# mv /tmp/initrd /super/SUPER/boot/loader/

update script

From one release to the other I use a script.

• you must have the above old /super/ structure available
• you must have a new set of iso's and you must have replaced /yast/ with those
• Download this tar file and untar it

# cd / ; tar -zxf /tmp/runup.tgz

• Once you have the above setup you can run the following to simply create an updated minimal system

# cd /super ; ./runup ; docd

• To create a new kde system

# cd /super ; ./runup kde ; docd kde

Bugs

DONE means integrated but not yet released. Once it is released this entries are emptied.

kde

• Add your bug here
• Update selection is probably redundant
• USB Motorola Surfboard Modem, doesn't load correctly in installation ( Yast says there is no module ), you need to set up like a Ethernet ( not usb ) and specify to use "usbnet" module. Maybe is the same with others USB cable modem.

gnome

Add your bug here

• KDE Resources and .hidden in the Applications menu

With the new menu editor in Gnome 2.12, you can remove the .hidden by unticking each item it contains, this doesn't work for the KDE Resources however.--Pflodo 15:52, 10 Sep 2005 (MDT)

The issue is that the installation adds these items so there's not much I can do about it (apart from removing K3B from the install)--mboman

minimal

• Add your bug here
• i586/glibc rpm is missing (e.g. for VIA CPUs)
• Update selection is probably redundant
• opensource driver for ralink wifi card from http://www.ralinktech.com

SLICK

Slim KDE 1 CD install with performance enhancements and KLIK

Packages

kde

Still around 4 Mbyte left to fill. Any package deletions please add also to save space.

• any missing packages go here
• smartlink-softmodem

gnome

• Any missing packages go here

• gnome-terminal
• gdmsetup

minimal

• any missing packages go here
• nano

SLICK

Slim KDE 1 CD install with performance enhancements and KLIK