From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 11:41:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D610137B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:41:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9PIffl21543; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:41:41 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Greg Berenfield Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redhat Linux 6.2 -> FreeBSD 4.1.1 Message-ID: <20001025114141.V28123@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from gberenfield@berenfield.com on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:12:22PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Greg Berenfield [001025 09:00] wrote: > Greetings, > > Hoping someone can assist me with converting from rh linux 6.2 to FreeBSD > 4.1.1 REL. > > I'm new to FreeBSD and have only setup a 'new' desktop with it (ok it had > windows but that doesn't count :). Finally figurered out CVS and have it > following the 4.1.1 REL path. (was originally a 4.1 REL box) > > Since rh 7 has motivated me so well to switch to FreeBSD, I wish to now > convert my existing rh 6.2 boxes to it. > My main concern is losing code on these boxes - is there any sort of > conversion path for ext2 filesystems to FreeBSD's? Or should I simply tar up > the stuff I wish to have around under FreeBSD and store them safely during > the conversion? You really want to use FreeBSD native UFS. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message