[arch] 2 Linux distros on the same partition

[Michael Towers]

I'm no expert, but I suspect that it is non-trivial to achieve what you 
want. My suggestion would be LVM to ease resizing of partitions on your 
machine and a live-CD to show (off) to others.

Best wishes,
mt

Neil Bags wrote:
> Well another way would be to put arch in / and gentoo in /gentoo and 
> replace gentoo's init with a thin wrapper (i don't use an initrd on 
> gentoo, and i don't think gentoo uses kinit).
> 
> But I want to introduce my friends to arch, and I thought this might be 
> an easy way to do it (if I can figure it out) since it doesn't require 
> changing their current linux setup, or shuffling-data/repartitioning.
> 
> nbags,
> 
> On 12/4/06, *Jeffrey 'jf' Lim* <jfs.world at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jfs.world at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 12/4/06, Neil Bags <lists at n3il.com <mailto:lists at n3il.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      > Well I do want to avoid shifting data around, and avoid having a
>     set how
>      > much space each distro can use. I will probably ditch gentoo
>     eventually, but
>      > for now I don't want to do too much shuffling (and have too much
>     downtime).
>      > It just seems like something that under linux (with all its
>     flexibility)
>      > should be easy!
>      >
> 
>     :) "flexibility" aint necessarily = "easy", mate... I empathize with
>     ur aims (and aspirations, of moving on to Arch) but i dont think
>     there's anything much i can do to help u besides suggesting what i've
>     suggested (splitting them out into different partitions)... Good
>     luck!!!
> 
>     -jf
> 
>     ps. i'm not so sure what environment ur machine is in, but could u say
>     perhaps attach an external hard disk (hence no downtime - u dont even
>     need to reboot!), and then just install arch onto it?
> 
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>     not help."
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