From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4rqW-0005Tf-6o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:56:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AB6EE04F9; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:56:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB0FE04F9 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:56:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so2637380wfd.4 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:56:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=m8uNZ9yUMrDd+iddFuqHzMqKtiwXRJaD1xK4dIAoYxA=; b=Nyp08b8YNffQbZIbavK6j/aqmxkJtbHOLIi4jllz7eMuLFIK71W226ZIrvJZH3FhI/ VNYctVz25lQuX3+5qwJG8Ozwr1xqNk7aBa18a3m2q3EiY9Jul33AyirUNnM4A/VjKQ8N yZvB68BsgIYny4Bxk4bMYLl408epBYf6ypsCM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=t0Oe0HhFXMg2+ga/eXC/M4z5LHwgY4KBC7M0E0PSEeSHDaD4qunQtnk0LE61TXquE8 5rpZg4gcfUVTCS37sThSVgV6vATEtJDuBluGe1oRWWRBM4oj0T/a/PVpdDuTdGUfv//p JWfhG+pdku4S2+h3W130wzuYjzHFgWnVVCwW4= Received: by 10.142.48.14 with SMTP id v14mr2036002wfv.27.1227596185032; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:56:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.85.72? (dialup-4.231.85.72.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.85.72]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm9102715wfg.48.2008.11.24.22.56.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:56:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <492BA192.3040508@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:56:18 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations References: <87zljovnrd.fsf@newsguy.com> <200811242334.15994.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87bpw4vkg5.fsf@newsguy.com> <200811250051.48155.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811250051.48155.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2eb5497b-0a91-4cfc-a6d4-cdda7655a4a7 X-Archives-Hash: c267ea55f54d35782ca51c4ad3efdefb 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 :-) :-)