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 conventions... do you mean >> differences like that boot is not a separate partition? >> > > yes, that's the bit that caught my eye > > >> And the install is already largely done but still from a chrooted >> shell with the original Installation booted. >> > > You can put the various files and directories anywhere you want to within > reason, so as long as the bootloader points to the right place, it will all > just work. > > 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: > > mount -o bind > >
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 tho. Mandrake used modules like a mad man. Dale :-) :-)
