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From: Will Briggs <will@burnieanglican.org.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:12:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465629DA.4000000@burnieanglican.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu9wsyx7vbg.fsf@nyu.edu>

Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86.
> I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64.

I assume you've checked whether it is 64-bit compatible.  Not all Core 2
Duo's in 6400's are.  I have a T2400 processor in my 6400 which is not
em64t enabled. Not that I  mind - plenty quick enough in 32-bit mode.

cat /proc/cpuinfo look for em64t in flags to make sure.

> 
> My question concerns sharing some directories between the two
> (naturally only one is active at a time).
> 
> In particular can I share
> 
>  * distfiles (DISTDIR)

definitely - it's source code after all.

Not sure about the others - logs is an output so should be safe, tmp may
have some portage state stuff in it but I know nothing...

W.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-25  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24 21:42 [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64 Allan Gottlieb
2007-05-24 21:51 ` Mark Shields
2007-05-24 23:46   ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-25  3:09     ` Mark Shields
2007-05-25  0:12 ` Will Briggs [this message]
2007-05-25  5:28   ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-05-25  5:56     ` Allan Gottlieb
2007-05-25  9:32 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-25 16:52   ` Allan Gottlieb
2007-05-25 17:24     ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-05-25 18:08       ` Allan Gottlieb
2007-05-27 14:13     ` Bo Ørsted Andresen

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