From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RQOPD-0000yY-2v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:10:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C111F21C0DF; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB9921C088 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426801B401D for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:09:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.447 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.447 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.093, BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.164, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qrtFWBhLX49y for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F141B401C for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:09:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RQOO0-0004Uy-Os for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:09:36 +0100 Received: from 109.176.132.93 ([109.176.132.93]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:09:36 +0100 Received: from slong by 109.176.132.93 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:09:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Steven J Long Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro Followup-To: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:15:14 +0000 Organization: Friendly-Coders Message-ID: References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> <4EBC1FFD.3040403@gmail.com> <626edce95a8b1dd0834cae8599ab9825.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <201111111921.04929.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4EBD84CC.8070609@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.176.132.93 X-Archives-Salt: 4b513f71-35d7-4c8c-8844-a05b991a86b4 X-Archives-Hash: c55d863591921bdc38593c65fe7fac78 Dale wrote: > Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home > directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on > with something new. > I strongly recommend keeping a separate partition for /home; it makes things a lot easier if and when you switch. It also makes backing up the whole partition with dd very easy. > This is the beauty of Linux. > Heh indeed; you can even keep an lvm setup across distros. I used to have `gentoo' and `debian' volume groups and it's easy to mount logical volumes in either direction (/home was on a separate large physical partition.) -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)