I’ve grabbed the torrent for openSUSE 10 beta 3 and decided to bite the bullet, skip the installation into VMware to test it and instead, just install over my home system using the “System Update” feature, using mounted isos on the existing file system. Andreas has written a wee script to setup the installation source. Works like a charm!
The great thing about Linux is that I’m still able to work while such a huge update is going on. No doubt there’s things I shouldn’t do, but web browsing, email and akgregator are working fine while all that stuff up there is being installed.
Moment of truth in 46:41…will the thing boot? 
It’s now the 1st and no new posts, either you can’t be arsed or openSUSE killed you. Which is it!
I’m glad you remined me Andy, I was just coming back to this subject. Lack of time prevents me from outlining the horrors of the installation, but my advice (and this is after reading the internal bugzilla) is not to push your luck with a system update from 9.0->9.1->9.2->9.3->opensuse10 Beta 4.
Eventually, you will come unstuck. As I did.