Here is a step-by-step ‘how to create your own isoboot, vmxboot, xenboot or usbboot images’ on openSUSE 10.3 Beta1.

1. What you require installed on your system:

kiwi-pxeboot
kiwi-desc-vmxboot
kiwi-desc-xennetboot
kiwi-desc-netboot
kiwi >= 1.49
kiwi-desc-livesystem
kiwi-desc-isoboot
kiwi-desc-usbboot
kiwi-desc-xenboot

2. Download Beta1 i386 DVD iso, you can choose to use internet repository if you got good bandwidth (skip step 3 if using internet repo)

3. Download the following RPM and put it in any folder e.g., /home/cyberorg/kiwiextra

squashfs
squashfs-kmp-default
aufs
aufs-kmp-default

suse-live-installer

4. Download these config files extract, rename to config.xml and copy them to their respective location:

/usr/share/kiwi/image/isoboot/suse-10.3/config.xml

/usr/share/kiwi/image/kwliveDVD-suse-10.3/config.xml

5. Edit the above two files and change your installation source repository path.

6. Run the following commands once you have installation source corrected :

kiwi –root /tmp/kwlive –prepare /usr/share/kiwi/image/kwliveDVD-suse-10.3 –logfile terminal

(Double dashes in –root, –prepare and –logfile)

If that completes successfully

kiwi -c /tmp/kwlive -d /tmp/ –logfile terminal

The above command will create a live DVD here: /tmp/liveDVD-suse-10.3.i686-1.1.2.iso

7. To test your DVD:

qemu -m 256 -cdrom /tmp/liveDVD-suse-10.3.i686-1.1.2.iso -boot d

Optionally you can run kiwi -c -t <imagetype> to create other image types.

Username, password and root password is ‘linux‘.

Result: