Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (331 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Wednesday 2008-01-16 at 09:53 -0200, Leonardo Chiquitto wrote:

> Carlos E. R. wrote:

> > I wonder if it is possible to update a partition containing factory (10.3
> > beta, actually) while the running system (different system version)
> > resides in another partition.


>  It is possible with a simple chroot(1). I run SLED10-SP1 daily, but have
> a separated partition with openSUSE-Factory, for development purposes.
>  Assuming that the openSUSE installation is on /dev/sda2, you can use
> the following script (you'll probably have to tweak it to fit your environment):
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> if ! grep -q /dev/sda2 /proc/mounts; then
>        mount /dev/sda2 /opensuse
> fi
> for part in proc sys dev; do
>        if ! grep -q /opensuse/$part /proc/mounts; then
>                mount --bind /$part /opensuse/$part
>        fi
> done
>
> cp -f /etc/resolv.conf /opensuse/etc/resolv.conf
> chroot /opensuse

Here I assume I would insert the update procedure.

> umount /opensuse/proc
> umount /opensuse/sys
> umount /opensuse/dev
> umount /opensuse


I still have not tested this procedure on my factory partition, but I used 
it as part of the recovery procedure of an old system, sucessfully, so I 
must say thank you :-)


- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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