Well another way would be to put arch in / and gentoo in /gentoo and replace
gentoo's init with a thin wrapper (i don't use an initrd on gentoo, and i
don't think gentoo uses kinit).
But I want to introduce my friends to arch, and I thought this might be an
easy way to do it (if I can figure it out) since it doesn't require changing
their current linux setup, or shuffling-data/repartitioning.
nbags,
On 12/4/06, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/4/06, Neil Bags <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well I do want to avoid shifting data around, and avoid having a set how
> much space each distro can use. I will probably ditch gentoo eventually,
but
> for now I don't want to do too much shuffling (and have too much
downtime).
> It just seems like something that under linux (with all its flexibility)
> should be easy!
>
:) "flexibility" aint necessarily = "easy", mate... I empathize with
ur aims (and aspirations, of moving on to Arch) but i dont think
there's anything much i can do to help u besides suggesting what i've
suggested (splitting them out into different partitions)... Good
luck!!!
-jf
ps. i'm not so sure what environment ur machine is in, but could u say
perhaps attach an external hard disk (hence no downtime - u dont even
need to reboot!), and then just install arch onto it?
--
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not
help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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