From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 11:59:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.telecom.ksu.edu (gateway-1.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6314D37B4C5 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma012119; Wed, 25 Oct 00 13:59:22 -0500 Message-ID: <39F72D62.D2F1F12C@telecom.ksu.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:58:42 -0500 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Berenfield Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redhat Linux 6.2 -> FreeBSD 4.1.1 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i don't know if this is work/personal, and what your budget is.. but one scenario would be, get new harddrives to install fbsd on. stick your rh6.2 drives in, and mount them and move your data over. (fbsd can mount ext2_fs slices) if that's not an option, you could do a "man-in-the-middle" scenario setup ftp/nfs or whatever, move your sources from linux to your newly setup fbsd box. then, wipe and install fbsd, and, if necessary, move your sources back. (or just leave on a nfs partition and mount on each new fbsd setup) repeating for each of your rh6.2 boxes. good luck nathan that's prolly the easiest and cheapest way to do it. Greg Berenfield 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? > > All comments appreciated. > Regards, > Greg B. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message