From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EBAE158041 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73F44E2A2C; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E360E2A25 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rdcsQ-0001sJ-Tk for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:14:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros? Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:14:34 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply X-Archives-Salt: d98c58e2-dfb6-4b2e-8e02-b68c1aea9c80 X-Archives-Hash: 8b2970b6a46e7bc5e9cc1565064be2a7 On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote: > The only other idea I had was to install to a different > disk and then use something like Clonezilla to move it to the partition > you want it in on your system. > > While I suspect you were being sarcastic I do not think any solution > that involves a 'pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives' will be satisfying. Actually (assuming the thumb drives are relaible) it probably would work fine. That's more-or-less the typical solution that my colleagues use -- though it's a drawer full of hard drives in caddies instead of USB thumb drives. Back in the day when we supported a couple versions of SCO, various BSDs, Novell Netware and Solaris, it required a fait bit of drawer space. For now, I guess I'll stick with the scheme I'm using but switch from DOS disklabel and gap to GPT disklabel and BIOS boot partition. It seems ugly, but it's managable with the help of a few shell scripts that are stored in the parition that belongs to the master copy of grub.