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

2008-11-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 27 November 2008 07:20:37 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take it you've already observed that you can also share portage and distfiles directories? Easiest is if they are on their own

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

2008-11-26 Thread Galevsky
2008/11/25 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

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

2008-11-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
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:

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

2008-11-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2008-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 24 November 2008 23:04:54 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm just having second doubts about how to dual boot 2 gentoo installations. Can I just edit grub from the original install and add the appropriate kernal line like:

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

2008-11-24 Thread Chris Thomas
It looks fine. You can also press e at the Grub prompt or boot to a live cd if it isn't right. -Chris On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 24 November 2008 23:04:54 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm just having second

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

2008-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

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

2008-11-24 Thread Dale
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