How to perform off-line live upgrade? openSUSE supports for some time online live upgrade. However I see two issues here: * minor -- I already have DVD downloaded and burned * major -- until now my eth0 card is not **oficially** supported, so on every upgrade it is disabled, and later I have to install drivers for it. I am afraid it might be the case with live upgrade as well -- i.e. upgrader would "upgrade" the driver for eth0, disabling it, and eventually breaking entire upgrade process So I am wondering if I could treat DVD as repository and point it for zypper to perform live upgrade "downloading" packages from the disc? Is it possible? How to do it? _I cannot run DVD and perform upgrade from there, because installer from the disc has hard time recognizing my LVM partitions, in short -- it does not recognize them. So I though why not try it from running system with fully working partitions._

Yes you can, zypper's man page has two example uris of doing just that.

`man 8 zypper`


CD or DVD drive
Optionally with devices list for probing.

cd:///
dvd:/subdir?devices=/dev/sr0,/dev/sr1


You can add them repo zypper's `addrepo` command.

`zypper ar dvd:/?devices=/dev/sr0`

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