Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and side pain not updating when mounting drives

2024-02-26 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I been noticing this for a while now.  It started maybe a couple months > ago.  At first, I figured it is a bug and will be fixed but now I wonder > if it is just me.  As some know, I have a lot of hard drives.  Sometimes > I unmount those drives and naturally Dolphin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 4:45 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2024-02-26, Wol wrote: > > On 26/02/2024 20:51, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > >> The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like > >> that and just buy a dozen USB flash drives. > >> > > And then, if USB isn't the

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-02-26, Wol wrote: > On 26/02/2024 20:51, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like >> that and just buy a dozen USB flash drives. >> > And then, if USB isn't the default boot media, he might as well sort out > UEFI boot, and multi-boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel questions. Availability and upgrading from old kernel.

2024-02-26 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I did my update and noticed the message about changes to kernel > packages.  Depending on how I read it, it sounds like gentoo-sources is > still available just that older versions are no longer updated as long.  > If I read it a different way, it sounds like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-26 Thread Wol
On 26/02/2024 20:51, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2024-02-26, eric wrote: I agree, using the custom.cfg file would not work if needing to boot different kernels of the same OS and those kernels were being updated. The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like that and just

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-02-26, eric wrote: > I agree, using the custom.cfg file would not work if needing to boot > different kernels of the same OS and those kernels were being updated. The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like that and just buy a dozen USB flash drives. -- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-26 Thread eric
On 2/26/24 11:01, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2024-02-26, eric wrote: On 2/26/24 04:57, gentoo-u...@krasauskas.dev wrote: You could also write a script that keeps all the distros up to date from within whichever one you're currently booted by mounting subvolumes to /mnt or wherever, chrooting in

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-02-26, eric wrote: > On 2/26/24 04:57, gentoo-u...@krasauskas.dev wrote: >> You could also write a script that keeps all the distros up to date >> from within whichever one you're currently booted by mounting >> subvolumes to /mnt or wherever, chrooting in and running the update. > > To

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-26 Thread eric
On 2/26/24 04:57, gentoo-u...@krasauskas.dev wrote: You could also write a script that keeps all the distros up to date from within whichever one you're currently booted by mounting subvolumes to /mnt or wherever, chrooting in and running the update. To avoid grub not being able to point to a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-26 Thread gentoo-user
Since this is a fairly custom task, I would approach it with a custom solution. - GPT - systemd-boot - One /boot partition - One BTRFS-on-LUKS partition (formatted using the distro with the oldest kernel) - {@root,@home,@var,@srv,@opt}-{distro1,distro2,distro3} subvolumes - Potentially