Sunday, December 9, 2012

Make DVD ISO Image openSUSE and Adding Installation Source

logo opensuseSome time ago, OpenSUSE 11.1 is released. After downloading quite a long time, finally we can get the software that we have been waiting for. Once we install, it's a pity if the DVD is taken everywhere. Not to mention if still needed for the install repository program .. If you can let the DVD is clean, no scratches and only come out if it is an emergency need. Unfortunately, very long time already download it ..
Well, want to know how to easily create ISO images and add them to the resource your Linux installation? Please refer to the following article.

Linux is a little different from other operating systems, say Windows. If on Windows, users are spoiled to be able to directly use any program directly, in a fit condition. Another case in linux, sometimes when we run the program, the computer warns that there is a codec, repository files, or additional programs that must be installed first. Here the artistic value of Linux. In this way we are required to know and continue to learn, learn and add knowledge. Correct?
Well, if we always rely on a DVD / CD only to nginstall plus plus program, we would be too sad if constantly forced Drive extra work continuously .. Helps us to create an ISO image from a DVD / CD Linux installation we. Let be a collection of DVDs that can be used as a story for posterity ... ck .. ck .. ck ..
Okay, let's focus on the following steps. For the record, the following command has been tested and successfully openSUSE 11.
First, we need to create a directory where we will store our ISO file. in this case I used the location / home / sources
mkdir / home / sources
1. Make ISO from your DVD with the following command:

mkisofs-iso-level 4-J-R-o / home/sources/OpenSUSEx86_64.iso / media/SU1101.001 /
2. Now add the ISO into our repository resource
zypper ar-c-t yast2 "iso :/? iso = / home/sources/OpenSUSEx86_64.iso" "openSUSE 11.1"
3. Check if the ISO is in the list of repositories, note: repository on the first line usually contains a record of our physical DVDs.
zypper repos
4. Now, we can remove the DVD from the physical repository repository list, select the number based on the order no.3 above.
zypper rr 1
5. Enable automatic refresh (optional)
zypper mr-r "openSUSE 11.1"
6. Now, we can try to install from the ISO repository we just created, for example, locate

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