Revision as of 18:11, 22 November 2011

Preparing an openSuse chroot

Prepare an openSUSE minimal image. This is done on a suitable opensuse machine (eg phost14) and then rsync'ed to zathras /data/11.4

zypper in kiwi-templates
OS=11.4
ROOTFS=/data/${OS}min
mkdir -p ${ROOTFS}
rm -rf ${ROOTFS}
PKGS="emacs-nox iputils kernel-xen less puppet rsync sudo terminfo wget"
kiwi --prepare suse-${OS}-JeOS --root $ROOTFS --add-profile kvmFlavour  $(for p in $PKGS; do echo --add-package $p; done)

chroot /data/$OS}min
mount /proc
mount -tsysfs /sys /sys
mount -tdevpts /dev/pts /dev/pts
touch /bin/on_ac_power
export rootfstype="ext4"
mkinitrd -d /dev/null -m "ext4 binfmt_misc"