Installing 10 (OSS RC1) Under 9.3 Possible?
Hi, 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. 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. Is this possible? Are there other ways to accomplish my goals (especially (2))? I have VMware and it occurred to me to set up a VM for the purpose of installing the new release, but that approach seems flawed because of the significant discrepancies between the emulated environment and the physical one on which I'll ultimately want the new installation to run. Thanks in advance for any tips, hints, pointers or instructions. Randall Schulz
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
On 9/30/2005 11:16 PM Randall R Schulz wrote:
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.
As far as that, you can install the 10.x via apt into a chroot on another partition, enter that one in your grub-menu and boot it. I have only seen a german HowTo: http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?t=39257
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.
Im not sure what you mean by this, so IM not sure if the howto above has this feature. OJ -- You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance, and Germany doesn't want to go to war. (aus alt.jokes)
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