On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Carlos E. R.
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On Saturday, 2013-11-23 at 18:37 -0000, Dylan wrote:
On 23/11/13 18:17, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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To install any operating system you need to boot up into a dedicated boot environment.
Why, exactly? Say I am running oS 12.3 and have a spare partition, why shouldn't it be possible to execute a program in the running 12.3 system which does a 1st stage install into the spare partition and updates the bootloader? At the next boot, you can then choose to boot to the new installation and complete the install from there...
I think I remember seeing a yast module to install the distro on another directory :-?
You can use zypper to install the OS into a dedicated directory. In a previous life I designed and manage a diskless cluster of opensuse sysetms and this is how I created OS images, for the perceus provisioning system. Not exactly what you're looking but it works, the scripts below. basically you run: zypper --non-interactive --no-gpg-checks --root /some/path aaa_base pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 ... https://github.com/perceus/perceus/blob/master/scripts/share/suse-vnfs.sh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org