Installing the image to an already installed system
Could someone advise as to how one can install the image to an already installed system? At the moment if one has a vanilla openSUSE or Goblin installed the image installer exits complaining that the system is already installed. The only way I can install a new image is to install some crud like UNR and then install Goblin, not ideal by any stretch of the imagination. Thanks, Andy -- Sent from a Nokia N97 Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 07:39:17AM +0000, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
Could someone advise as to how one can install the image to an already installed system? At the moment if one has a vanilla openSUSE or Goblin installed the image installer exits complaining that the system is already installed.
The only way I can install a new image is to install some crud like UNR and then install Goblin, not ideal by any stretch of the imagination.
You can boot to a rescue disk and delete a partition and then reinstall using the installer if you want to. But why would you want to reinstall to a system that is already installed? What are you trying to solve here? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 07:39 +0000, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
Could someone advise as to how one can install the image to an already installed system? At the moment if one has a vanilla openSUSE or Goblin installed the image installer exits complaining that the system is already installed.
Oh - you want to re-install the same OEM image ? as it were to re-flash the system ? AFAIK that is not possible (or easy) currently; which sucks. I filed a bug report about this once: http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498432 if you want to chip in (and it's public) :-) Thanks, Michael. -- michael.meeks@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+help@opensuse.org
2009/9/4 Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 07:39 +0000, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
Could someone advise as to how one can install the image to an already installed system? At the moment if one has a vanilla openSUSE or Goblin installed the image installer exits complaining that the system is already installed.
Oh - you want to re-install the same OEM image ? as it were to re-flash the system ?
Yup exactly that. As I only have the one machine to use/test each image build the process for me is a bit painful.
AFAIK that is not possible (or easy) currently; which sucks.
I filed a bug report about this once:
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498432
if you want to chip in (and it's public) :-)
OK, I'll chip in and see what happens. I've had one report from someone trying the image and they already have 11.1 on their machine from a previous install, yet they want the Goblin Goodness(TM). Unfortunately they cant do so without messing around with gparted or another distro first. Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+help@opensuse.org
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