On 2009/11/18 19:27 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
After reading a bit about zypper dup, I realize that my query was misunderstood. I should have realized this earlier. The misunderstand was the result of my excessive effort at brevity. Here is a better try:
At present, there are two oS installations on the system, 11.1, which is the one currently in use, and 10.3, the one used previously, which is now serving for emergency and maintenance. This is the kind of arrangement that I like to keep on the machine.
Now I am interested in installing 11.2, which would replace the present 10.3 release. I have downloaded the appropriate DVD iso file. My question was about the possibility of doing the following:
1) The 11.2 iso file resides in a directory in the 11.1 system, which is booted; 2) I cd to the directory occupied by the iso file, and somehow (this is the question) cause it to run the installer, which will direct to install 11.2 in the partitions formerly occupied by 10.3, including reformatting, etc.
All this in order to eliminate the need for a DVD image. The justification is that I know that the iso file is valid because it returns the correct MD5 string, while the DVD I made from it is suspect because it produced an unusable 11.2 system.
Is there a way to do that?
Sort of. You have to actually run the installation kernel and initrd to install. This you can probably do with kexec, which I haven't tried personally. I find it easy enough to put the installation kernel and initrd somewhere Grub can find them, and reboot using them. No need to burn anything regardless which source media type you prefer. http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_using_images (alternate installation methods) http://en.opensuse.org/Kexec (reboot without rebooting) http://en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc (installation option reference) http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/iso/openSUSE-11.2-NET-i586.is... (small CD iso you can burn to use to start 32 bit x86 installation) http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/lin... (installation kernel) http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/ini... (installation initrd) -- The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 1 Corinthians 7:3 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org