I'm no expert, but I suspect that it is non-trivial to achieve what you want. My suggestion would be LVM to ease resizing of partitions on your machine and a live-CD to show (off) to others.
Best wishes, mt Neil Bags wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On 12/4/06, Neil Bags <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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 <http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228> > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > <http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
