[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

In , Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Why the same kernel version? -- »Q« -- gen

[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

In , Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > »Q« wrote: > > In , > > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> You should be able to share /boot and swap without any problems. > >> Just make sure you name the kernels something different or that > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? No, you don't NEED to have seperate /boot partitions. The problem might be, that the default fi

[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

/. Gal' 2007/4/2, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?': > And what's about sharing /root ? is there any problem or n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

»Q« wrote: > In , > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> 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. >> > > Why the sam

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

»Q« wrote: > In , > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> »Q« wrote: >> >>> In , >>> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> You should be able to share /boot and swap without any problems. Just make sure you name the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

I have dual booted different distros on a single box sharing boot and swap done it worked fine. There was some lag in startup when changing systems. My guess would be differences in swap. Used different Kernel version, and everything. Just be very careful, some install scripts use symlinks in /

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

On 4/2/07, Rob Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have dual booted different distros on a single box sharing boot and swap done it worked fine. There was some lag in startup when changing systems. My guess would be differences in swap. Used different Kernel version, and everything. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

On Monday 02 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > No, you don't NEED to have seperate /b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:41:18 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > No, you don't NEED to have seperate /boot partitions. The problem > might be, that the default filenames "overlap" in Gentoo and Ubuntu. > But if you make sure that this does not happen and if you setup > your bootloader (grub?) "properl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?': > And what's about sharing /root ? is there any problem or not ? I never > did it but was wondering about. No, different distros

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

raction of even a minimal / alan > > Gal' > > 2007/4/2, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about > > '[gentoo-user] Re: > > > > Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

On Tuesday 03 April 2007 03:11:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 03 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > /etc, /var, /usr, /bin and so on I can see the (potential) problems. > > But just /root ? It is a must to have it does not contain important > > tuned up files, does it ? It is just an ac