ISO Image als Installations Medium

Tired of keeping your DVD's around? Want to create ISO images and add them as installation sources?
These commands have been tested on openSUSE 11.

First create a directory where you will store your ISO files.
```
mkdir /home/sources
```

Now create your ISO

mkisofs -iso-level 4 -J -R -o /home/sources/su1100.001.iso /media/SU1100.001/

Now we add the ISO as a software repository

zypper ar -c -t yast2 "iso:/?iso=/home/ricardo/sources/su1100.001.iso" "openSuSE 11"

Verify that the service has been successfully added
```
zypper repos
```
Now we can delete the DVD repository as an installation repository
```
zypper rr 1
```
Let's quickly enable automatic refresh (optional)
```
zypper mr -r "openSuSE 11"
```
Now we can finally test the ISO repository and install a package like nmap
```
zypper in -y nmap
```

SuSE 11.3 fail

SuSE11.3 did start with black screen after installation.
Only the failsafe session did boot.

Take a look at the procedure I used to install the nVidia driver as I installed openSUSE 11.3:

During the install, when you have the option to change your booting setup, I add nomodeset to the kernel load command for the normal load/start of openSUSE. This kernel startup option is already present for the Failsafe selection for openSUSE.
During the first start of openSUSE, I download the latest nVidia Video driver to the downloads folder.
I change/save the System/Kernel option NO_KMS_IN_INITRD from "No" to "Yes" in the /etc/sysconfig Editor in Yast.
I do an update of openSUSE on the first run of openSUSE and then a restart/reboot.
In grub OS selection I add the command line option "3" to the openSUSE start line so that I just go to the run level three terminal prompt.
I login in as root and change to the /home/user/Downloads folder.
I run/install the NVIDIA video driver using "sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.35.run" and answer all questions as appropriate for my system.
Type in reboot at terminal prompt to restart the system with new video driver.

MySQL

MySQL für SuSE 11.x

Postfix

Postfix für SuSE 11.x