7.0 Managing Image Source Files with POSCDTool and POSCopyTool

Before you can create images for Point of Service terminals, you must copy the image source files from the NovellĀ® Linux Point of Service CDs to a central distribution directory and create the reference files that ImageBuilder needs to locate the image source files.

Novell Linux Point of Service provides two command line utilities to simplify the process of managing the source files required to build client images: POSCDTool and POSCopyTool. This section reviews the POSCDTool and POSCopyTool commands and procedures required to manage the image source files.