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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 25 November 2008 00:16:26 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>>> You have the right idea. |
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>>> Make sure your paths are correct when you install. I see you have |
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>>> different conventions on the two drives. Don't get confused :-) |
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>> Thanks but I'm not sure what you mean by conventions... do you mean |
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>> differences like that boot is not a separate partition? |
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> yes, that's the bit that caught my eye |
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>> And the install is already largely done but still from a chrooted |
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>> shell with the original Installation booted. |
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> You can put the various files and directories anywhere you want to within |
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> reason, so as long as the bootloader points to the right place, it will all |
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> just work. |
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> I take it you've already observed that you can also share portage and |
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> distfiles directories? Easiest is if they are on their own partitions but |
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> there are tricks that can get the same effect if not. How to do this is left |
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> as an exercise for the reader :-) with one tip for those who don't know: |
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> mount -o bind |
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Could he not share /boot? He may want to have a different set of |
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kernels for some reason but couldn't he even share those? I ask cause I |
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shared when I dual booted Mandrake and Gentoo. Naturally Mandrake |
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didn't last long. LOL It did have different kernels tho. Mandrake |
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used modules like a mad man. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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