Hello,
I wonder if it is possible to update a partition containing factory (10.3 beta, actually) while the running system (different system version) resides in another partition.
control running ------> updating (stopped)
standard 10.3 factory 11α
The idea is to be able to continue doing things elsewhere while the lengthy download takes place.
A posibility would be vmware, I guess.
It is possible with a simple chroot(1). I run SLED10-SP1 daily, but have a separated partition with openSUSE-Factory, for development purposes. Assuming that the openSUSE installation is on /dev/sda2, you can use the following script (you'll probably have to tweak it to fit your environment): Regards, Leonardo #!/bin/bash if ! grep -q /dev/sda2 /proc/mounts; then mount /dev/sda2 /opensuse fi for part in proc sys dev; do if ! grep -q /opensuse/$part /proc/mounts; then mount --bind /$part /opensuse/$part fi done cp -f /etc/resolv.conf /opensuse/etc/resolv.conf chroot /opensuse umount /opensuse/proc umount /opensuse/sys umount /opensuse/dev umount /opensuse