8.6 Creating Point of Service Images

Before you can deploy Point of Service terminals, you must first create image files that contain the operating system and application files required to boot the terminals. Before doing so, however, you must copy the image source files from the Novell Linux Point of Service CDs to the Admin/Branch Server and define their location.

  1. Copy the image source files to your Admin/Branch Server using either the POSCDTool script or the POSCopyTool script.

    For detailed instructions, see Managing Image Source Files with POSCDTool and POSCopyTool in the Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Administration Guide.

  2. Define the location of the image source files in either the AdminServer.conf file (used by scr) or the Distribution.xml file (used by xscr).

    For detailed instructions, see Generating AdminServer.conf or Distribution.xml in the Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Administration Guide.

  3. Build the Point of Service image files.

    For more information on this procedure, see Building Images with scr or Building Images with xscr in the Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Administration Guide.