installing gentoo

[raptor]

i have looked over the gentoo site .. somewhere...!! cant remmember... that I can get the image and write it on a partition setup my GRUB restart and use Gentoo and already installed distro...
Do I have to install anything else after that.....

Is there a way for two different distros to share config files .... say

On my Mandrake I say something like :
share-configs /etc/ssh /other-partition/etc/ssh

Then on the Gentoo :

share-configs /etc/ssh /other-partition/etc/ssh

And "share-configs" use some soft-link method to do this.... probably the way "update-alternatives" work

[meyerm]

Please use ",", your post would be much easier to read; at least for non-native-english-speakers - ok, at least for me.

I'm not quite sure if this is what you're searching. But perhaps you want to have a look at the live-cd. I've never used it, but since it is a complete bootable gentoo it should at least help you reaching your goal. Of course you will always have to change the configs to get it run smooth on your system.

Sharing configs with symlinks should be possible without using any special program. As long as both distris are using a linux-fs and are mounting the partition of the other distri it should simply work with "ln -s /etc/ssh /mnt/mandrake/etc/ssh".

But be aware that there is always one side, which won't have "real" files. Only symlinks -> pay attention when you clean up your distri with the files. Using hardlinks, which would be the solution against this, are not possible over different filesystems.

HTH