13.4.4 Building USB Stick Images with a
System Image
In environments where no suitable network infrastructure is available to boot SUSE
Linux Enterprise Point of Service terminals over the LAN, you can use USB stick images
containing system images. To build such images, proceed as follows:
1
Select the
usb
image type in
config.xml
, as described in Section 13.1,
“Understanding the KIWI Configuration” (page 174).
2
Run the
--prepare
and
--create
commands of KIWI, as described in
Section 13.3, “Creating the KIWI Image” (page 180).
3
Change to the directory containing your image data:
cd /var/lib/SLEPOS/system/images/
image_name
4
Connect an empty USB stick with sufficient capacity to the computer. All data
from the USB stick will be erased in the following step.
5
Copy the image files to the USB stick using the following KIWI command:
kiwi --bootstick
path_to_initrd
--bootstick-system
path_to_system_image
Available USB devices are listed. Enter the name of the device to use. The initrd
and system images are copied to the disk and GRUB is installed.
13.5 Deploying KIWI Images
The deployment process of available KIWI images strongly depends on the type of
image built. Detailed information about how each implementation works is found in
Section 1.4 “Activating an Image” in
/usr/share/doc/packages/kiwi/kiwi
.
There are also several real life examples available in this document, that run through
the deployment details of all the respective image types. See also Section 1.6 “Real-
Life Scenarios - A Tutorial” in
/usr/share/doc/packages/kiwi/kiwi.pdf
.
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