Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:46:11
Message-Id: 20070402093528.72936b15@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs? by Alexander Skwar
1 On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:41:18 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2
3 > No, you don't NEED to have seperate /boot partitions. The problem
4 > might be, that the default filenames "overlap" in Gentoo and Ubuntu.
5 > But if you make sure that this does not happen and if you setup
6 > your bootloader (grub?) "properly", then all is fine.
7
8 It can also get a little messy with various files in root from the
9 different distros. I've done this in the past, but I kept each distro's
10 files in a subdirectory.
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14 Neil Bothwick
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16 30 minutes of begging is not considered foreplay.

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