This task is required for all Administration Servers you want to build images on.
You can manually generate the configuration file with POSCDTool. POSCopyTool
automatically generates these files after completing the copy procedure.
11.3.1 Copying the SUSE Linux Enterprise
Point of Service CDs
POSCDTool and POSCopyTool copy the RPM software packages used to build SLE-
based system images by default to the following directories:
/var/lib/SLEPOS/dist/SLES-11-SP1-DVD-i586-DVD1
/var/lib/SLEPOS/dist/SLED-11-SP1-DVD-i586-DVD1
/var/lib/SLEPOS/dist/SLE-11-POS-i586-x86_64-CD1
After you have copied the CDs using POSCDTool or POSCopyTool, KIWI can use
the copied files to build images.
POSCDTool Command
The copy command syntax for POSCDTool is as follows:
poscdtool.pl --copy [--type=cd|dir] --source=
source_media
[--dest=
distribution_directory
]
For example, the following command copies the SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service
CDs from a CD source to the default distribution directory,
/var/lib/SLEPOS/
dist
:
poscdtool.pl --copy --source=/media/cdrom
POSCopyTool Command
The copy command syntax for POSCopyTool is as follows:
poscopytool.pl --source=
path
For example:
poscopytool.pl --source=/media/dvd
When you use POSCopyTool, it performs the following functions:
Managing Image Source Files
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