OpenSUSE Remastering

Well, I don’t think I can make a Linux distribution based on openSUSE, due to my poor skill and capability. It would be hard to make it possible, and I’m afraid I will never touch this process.

But, it’s not really difficult as I think. openSUSE developer prepare a nice and easy program called Kiwi. There is a number of such product built on Kiwi, the popular one is KDE4 LiveCD by Stephan Binner. After reviewing the document and manual program, I get started with the easiest one : Building openSUSE on USB disk.

openSUSE on USB disk means that I want to run all of openSUSE from the USB stick. Modern computer come with the capability to boot from USB disk, and if I can build this, I can make it for various function.

There is another reason. My beloved wife Dear Rey choose to build a customized Linux distro based on openSUSE as her final exam topic. She want to build the customized distro based on openSUSE to fit with her requirement in her office. Her office mainly using Microsoft WIndows as default OS and she want to change this by providing openSUSE remastering distro.

I get started with Kiwi begining this week and it took 2-3 days without any luck. There is an error after launch kiwi although I take one-click-install to get the latest kiwi update. After googling with no avail, Cyberorg came with the solution. He said in opensuse-kiwi IRC channel, get the latest update !

I think I have the latest kiwi on my openSUSE box but after checking the version, it was version 1.4.6. Cyberorg said that the latest version is v2.38 SVN: Revision: 1125. OMG :-)

After updating kiwi from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_10.3/, Kiwi running well without problem.

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Masim Vavai Sugianto Masim Vavai Sugianto, Indonesian, male, 32 years old, born and live in Bekasi-West Java, a small town near Jakarta – main city of Indonesia – since 17 May 1976. Founder of Indonesian openSUSE and Zimbra Community, an adventure, travelling and book lover.



I live in a tropical country, Indonesia that only has two seasons, dry season and rainy season. I love the dry season with bright sunshine and rare rain…There is a joke about the seasons in Indonesia. Indonesia is known as a country with so many season, ie : durian season, mango season, married season and much more...



ContactI'm currently working as an IT support for a small company based on Jakarta. My career has led me to specialize in Sysadmin, networking and software implementation with current focus on Linux and open source area. I have experience on MRP, ERP, Gemba Kaizen, Just in Time, Six Sigma and TQC/TQM. Please use my contact page if you wish to contact me.
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