[gentoo-user] Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?
Currently I dual-boot my notebook with XP and Gentoo. I'm curious to try out all this beryl stuff and see what all the rage is with Ubuntu and the kids these days. Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the /boot and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones for that distro too? (and I did try to get beryl working in Gentoo, but couldn't do it. Before I spend too much time messing with that, I figured I'd see if it was even worth it. Since I have nvidia card, I can't run the Ubuntu live CD and beryl as it needs to install the proprietary drivers. ) D.Vin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?
Daevid Vincent wrote: Currently I dual-boot my notebook with XP and Gentoo. I'm curious to try out all this beryl stuff and see what all the rage is with Ubuntu and the kids these days. Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the /boot and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones for that distro too? (and I did try to get beryl working in Gentoo, but couldn't do it. Before I spend too much time messing with that, I figured I'd see if it was even worth it. Since I have nvidia card, I can't run the Ubuntu live CD and beryl as it needs to install the proprietary drivers. ) D.Vin You should be able to share /boot and swap without any problems. Just make sure you name the kernels something different or that each distro is set up to use the same kernel version. Some people share the /home too. I have read that can be tricky though. May need the same or close to the same version of KDE for example. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?
On 20:14 Sun 01 Apr , Daevid Vincent wrote: Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the /boot and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones for that distro too? you can and you should. -- Good evening, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 11th, nineteen hundred ninety-five. My supervisor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you would like, I could sing it for you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
