Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 09:45:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >Instead of using useradd to create user accounts can I just edit > /etc/passwd & /etc/group and place identical entries in the Gentoo > side as the FC2 side and then have both distros use the same home > directories? (Without Gentoo actua

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Rchard & Brian, Thanks a lot you guys. The FC2 home and Musiclib partitions are now mounting, user accounts are created, passwords and groups are more or less in place and everyone can at least log in and see file permissions with the correct owners and groups. I'm about 110 of 179 packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/16/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Instead of using useradd to create user accounts can I just edit > >/etc/passwd & /etc/group and place identical entries in the Gentoo > >side as the FC2 side and then have both distros use the same home > >directorie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/16/05, Brian Truter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only thing off the top of my head that i can think of is that FC2 > uses devfs and 2005.0 uses udev for your /dev device files > > There are quite a few other differences, but I think they would be minor. > > Are you going to replace F

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: > Instead of using useradd to create user accounts can I just edit >/etc/passwd & /etc/group and place identical entries in the Gentoo >side as the FC2 side and then have both distros use the same home >directories? (Without Gentoo actually creating them?) I'd then run >passwd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Truter
On 4/16/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >Sorry to be a pest but I received no answers on this yet so I > thought I'd try again. > >The machine below is now happily dual booting Gentoo and FC2. I can > mount the FC2 home directory and see the user's directories but there >

[gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Sorry to be a pest but I received no answers on this yet so I thought I'd try again. The machine below is now happily dual booting Gentoo and FC2. I can mount the FC2 home directory and see the user's directories but there are unassigned owner and group values (500/501/502, etc.) Ins