On Tuesday 06 January 2009 14:15, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Hi,

I was wondering if it's feasible (if at all possible) to perform an openSUSE 11.1 installation to an unused partition on my existing 10.0 system while it (the 10.0 system) is running?

Randall Schulz

I've never tried, but if you're willing to experiment:

Get a VM running based on that empty partition. ...

So, I'm trying this. The first hurdle I've reached is that the 11.1 (x86) installer doesn't see the virtualized SCSI disk, though to the best of my ability to tell (after several attempts to re-configure it in VMware just to make sure it was right and choice of a couple of different SCSI IDs), the hard drive configuration for the virtual machine is correct. If it's a useful clue, before I reordered the VMware BIOS boot priority, I got a "GRUB error" screen when it tried to boot from the hard drive, which makes me think that the virtual machine _does_ have that virtual disk configured and accessible. I'm running what is now a kind of old VMware Workstation (5.5.1). I'd actually purchased a license upgrade to 6.0 and since then 6.5 has been released as a free upgrade for 6.0 license holders. I'm preparing to install 6.5.1, now. If anyone has any information about why the openSUSE 11.1 installer didn't see the virtualized physical SCSI drive under 5.5.1 and whether 6.5.1 will fix that or any other (possibly) pertinent information, I'd love to hear it.

Boot the install DVD in that VM. Install.

Lather, rinse, repeat. (We'll let you know when to break that loop...)

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Good Luck Greg

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