[opensuse] Failure, was upgrade => 11.3

On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 00:09 +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:

On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 15:52 -0400, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

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On 07/06/2010 03:40 PM, Hans Witvliet pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 15:12 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:59 PM, pistazienfresser wrote:

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On 05/07/10 21:08, steve wrote:

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> > For normal (i.e. iron) machines it is rebooting from cd

It says that the live cd is not for upgrading. Only for installation 'as is'.

L x

I thought the update/upgrade with zypper is now 'officially' supported:

http://wiki.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade (but hidden in the SDB namespace)

As I understand it:

UPGRADE is supported via: dvd, zypper dup, yast2 wagon

INSTALL is supported via: dvd, LiveCD, NetInstall CD

What was the question?

Greg

The question was, what the preferred method is for upgrading a virtual machine, as rebooting from dvd and selection "upgrade" is not possible.

Sure it is. What VM are you using?? It is quite possible in VirtualBox.

I've installed XEN domU images directly from (a copy of) the installation tree.

So if (!) upgrading by means of booting through a cd/dvd image is the preferred method, i presume i have to alter the xen-config file and have it point to a 11.3-net-boot-image, Not?

I'll will try it with some old 11.0 machines....

As said i did try but no success I made a xen-config file like:disk = [ 'file:/srv/distro//iso/suse/open/11.3/openSUSE-NET-Build0694-x86_64.iso,sde:cdrom,r', 'phy:/dev/xen-productie/kc3001-boot,sda,w','phy:/dev/xen-productie/kc3001-swap,sdb,w', 'phy:/dev/xen-productie/kc3001-syst,sdc,w', 'phy:/dev/xen-productie/kc3001-data,sdd,w' ] memory = 1024 vcpus = 2 builder = 'linux' name = 'kc3001' dhcp = 'dhcp' kernel = '/srv/xen/install/openSUSE_11.3/vmlinuz64' ramdisk = '/srv/xen/install/openSUSE_11.3/initrd64' vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3E:30:72:00' ] localtime = 0 on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'destroy' on_crash = 'destroy' nographic = 1 extra = 'install=http://kc-suse-install/openSUSE_11.3/oss/ xencons=tty textmode=1 ' Booting was succesful but not possible to upgrade: Two error messages prevent me from upgrading: The partitioning on disk /dev/sda is not readable by the partitioning tool parted, which is used to change the partition table. You can use the partitions on disk /dev/sda as they are. You can format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk with this tool. [OK] The partitioning on disk /dev/sdc is not readable by the partitioning tool parted, which is used to change the partition table. You can use the partitions on disk /dev/sdc as they are. You can format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk with this tool. [OK] (x) New Installation ( ) Update SHADED-OUT, thus can not select !!!! Strangely enough i can normally boot this XEN-image. /dev/sda1 is my ext2 /boot mountpoint /dev/sdb is my swap-disk /dev/sdc i have a logical volume with /, /usr, /home, /opt, /var, /tmp. /dev/sdd is a separate data-disk for /srv So i can wipe the disk and do a fresh installation, but i can not do an upgrade.... ;-O Anyone else came across this??? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org