Am Freitag, 30. September 2005 23:16 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
I have a well-functioning 9.3 installation and will be setting up a 10.0 installation using the Novell commercial distribution when it arrives. I'm attempting a preview installation using the 10.0 RC1 OSS release based on the 5-CD set of ISOs I just retrieved via the torrent published on the openSUSE.org Web site. What I'd like to do is run all (or as much as possible) of the installation software under my existing 9.3 setup. I want to do this for two reasons: 1) Keep the system available for ordinary operations during the (preview) installation.
Hi Randall, XEN
2) Make it easy to access information about the existing configuration without having to write it all down or hunt for it in configuration files during the execution of the installer.
Also in Xen, you will always have an emulated environment.
Is this possible? Are there other ways to accomplish my goals (especially (2))?
Maybe. Turn your real installation in a domain0. That's easy and reversible. Boot from CD and make an image from your real (now dom0) installation. Reboot dom0. Mount the image (will become dom1) loop,rw and make the necessary changes (fstab,...). Create a swap-image. Configure xen to use your image as domain1 and the swap-image. Start domain1. Open a console to domain1 and update domain1 to 10.0. This is all theoretical. Not tested, but may be a way to go. -- mdc