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On Friday, 2 March 2018 11:12:36 GMT Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'd like to install a second Gentoo system on a partition by running |
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> QEMU using that partition (directly) - this is to create and update a |
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> Gentoo |
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> system with different CFLAGS (for an older machine). |
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> Having no experience in such setups my initial problem is how to |
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> install grub2 on that partition (only). I don't want to modify the MBR |
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> of the whole drive containing that partition. |
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I do the same for my Atom machine by NFS-exporting its /usr/portage to a |
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chroot on my main machine. The question of booting doesn't arise; all that's |
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needed is a copy of /etc/portage* and the world file. If that sounds |
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interesting I can show you some more detail. |
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* Things like -march and --jobs differ to suit the host machine, but that's |
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about all. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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