RE: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box (chroot)

2004-12-01 Thread McLaughlin, Toby
> I am not familiar with chroot. Could you please point us out to good > documentation? Of course. I intended to add a link to my last post, but a slip-of-the-keyboard caused me to post prematurely (this is also the cause of the appalling grammar and spelling in my last post). Here are a coup

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box (chroot)

2004-12-01 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:43:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 05:55, McLaughlin, Toby wrote: > > An advanced technique that you could consider is not to dual-boot at > > all, but to run Debian in chroot environment under gentoo. In this > > setup, both distributions

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box (chroot)

2004-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 05:55, McLaughlin, Toby wrote: > An advanced technique that you could consider is not to dual-boot at > all, but to run Debian in chroot environment under gentoo. In this > setup, both distributions can run simultaneously while sharing the same > kernel. I haven't this my

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box (question)

2004-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does that mean that we will end up with two /boot, one for Debian and one for Gentoo, and two / one for Debian and one for Gentoo? SOmething like /dev/hda1 swap (common) /dev/hda2 /home (common) /dev/hda3 /boot (for Debian) /dev/hda4 / (for Debian) /dev/hda5 /boot (for Gentoo) /dev/hda6 / (for G

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box

2004-12-01 Thread Sun Liwen
i think you can install only one grub to boot the two system with editing menu.lst. Do you mean that when i install Debian, I can skip "the boot loader installation" ? skip it or install on the /boot partition of the debian ( root partition instead if you leave a single partition to debian )

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box

2004-11-30 Thread Lian Liming
Sun Liwen wrote: Thank you very much for reply. i think you can install only one grub to boot the two system with editing menu.lst. Do you mean that when i install Debian, I can skip "the boot loader installation" ? ps: two grub is ok. The boot loader on Gentoo is installed on MBR. So if i want

RE: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box

2004-11-30 Thread McLaughlin, Toby
bject: Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Lian Liming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:14 PM > Subject: Question about Dual boot Linux o

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box

2004-11-30 Thread Sun Liwen
- Original Message - From: "Lian Liming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:14 PM Subject: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box Hi all, I have a box with a pre-installed gentoo system. Since that system is installed by my friend an