On 4/16/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Sorry to be a pest but I received no answers on this yet so I > thought I'd try again. > > The machine below is now happily dual booting Gentoo and FC2. I can > mount the FC2 home directory and see the user's directories but there > are unassigned owner and group values (500/501/502, etc.) > > Instead of using useradd to create user accounts can I just edit > /etc/passwd & /etc/group and place identical entries in the Gentoo > side as the FC2 side and then have both distros use the same home > directories? (Without Gentoo actually creating them?) I'd then run > passwd for each user and hopefully folks could log in. Or is there > more to creating a new user account? > > Thanks in advance for your ideas here. > > BTW: the 2005:0 install went really well. The only limitation I ran > into was the machine was intended to be wireless and the emerge of > ndiswrapper didn't work so I've had to drag a cable around to get net > access. That should get fixed soon. > > Thanks again, > Mark > > On 4/15/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking at converting my wife's machine over to Gentoo. It's a > > first step toward this media server we're working on as her machine is > > close to all the TV stuff and has lots of unpartitioned disk space. > > This machine is currently running FC2 and I figure I'll go to 2005.0. > > What sort of things do I need to watch out for? > > > > I want to keep all user accounts identical between the two distros > > so that the /home partition is used identically no matter which distro > > is running early on. Is this possible? I expect that I'll start the > > Gentoo thing but probably need to go back to FC2 a couple of times > > along the way for her. To that end I presume that I need to set up > > Gentoo to duplicate FC's user and group numbers for users as well as > > FC's private group setup? (mark:mark instead of mark:user) Is this > > going to cause any problems under Gentoo? I cannot see why but I've > > not thought this through deeply. > > > > Are there any other things to watch out for? I was thinking I'd use > > the same boot partition and just put all the kernels in one place. I'd > > then be able to manage grub.conf no matter which one is running early > > on. I'll mount the existing home partition for users and create a new > > root and var partition for Gentoo. I'll reuse the existing swap > > partition for both distros. > > > > Certainly Gentoo will probably have newer application revisions so > > possibly I'll set up package.versions to be identical to FC2 for a > > while until the conversion is done. Maybe that's not necessary but it > > seems a safer thing to do for now. > > > > Are there any gotchas I should watch out for? I've not tried this before. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Mark > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > >
The only thing off the top of my head that i can think of is that FC2 uses devfs and 2005.0 uses udev for your /dev device files There are quite a few other differences, but I think they would be minor. Are you going to replace FC2 with Gentoo? Thats the impression I got from your first message, but the 2nd message says you are dual booting them. -- [email protected] mailing list
