On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 13:45 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
An idea for the future, how to install a full system upgrade:
Based on existing system in root partition A, do a full upgrade installing in root partition B instead, while system in partition A is still running.
It is almost a new install, except that the configuration is taken from the running system, and should have the classic *rpmnew etc files to review.
Does it makes sense? Sounds feasible?
It sounds feasible to me (whatever that's worth), and I do a similar thing myself (LVM with a /home, two root partitions, and <swap>). The downside to this is disk space: you'd effectively double the installation size, and assuming you have a "reasonably-sized" / partition (I'm currently using 10GB, which might be too small) you'd have to double that. This works, but not wonderfully on a 100GB disk (2x 10GB roots, 1 4GB swap, 68GB /home, and my /home is frequently running low on space, courtesy my OpenOffice.org builds, which are huge). When 1TB disks become commonplace, this might be better, but currently I'm not sure that this should be the default install setup... - Jon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org