Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2008 00:16:26 Harry Putnam wrote:
>   
>>> You have the right idea.
>>>
>>> Make sure your paths are correct when you install. I see you have
>>> different conventions on the two drives. Don't get confused :-)
>>>       
>> Thanks but I'm not sure what you mean by conventions... do you mean
>> differences like that boot is not a separate partition?
>>     
>
> yes, that's the bit that caught my eye
>
>   
>> And the install is already largely done but still from a chrooted
>> shell with the original Installation booted.
>>     
>
> You can put the various files and directories anywhere you want to within 
> reason, so as long as the bootloader points to the right place, it will all 
> just work.
>
> I take it you've already observed that you can also share portage and 
> distfiles directories? Easiest is if they are on their own partitions but 
> there are tricks that can get the same effect if not. How to do this is left 
> as an exercise for the reader :-) with one tip for those who don't know:
>
> mount -o bind
>
>   

Could he not share /boot?  He may want to have a different set of
kernels for some reason but couldn't he even share those?  I ask cause I
shared when I dual booted Mandrake and Gentoo.  Naturally Mandrake
didn't last long.  LOL  It did have different kernels tho.  Mandrake
used modules like a mad man.

Dale

:-)  :-)