From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 17:58:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A931137B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 17:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B5943E6A for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 17:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: by ns1.webwarrior.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 430C52528D; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 02:00:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 02:00:50 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel To: Nicholas Hart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: migration questions Message-ID: <20020930070050.GC17093@ns1.webwarrior.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:02:53PM -0700, Nicholas Hart wrote: > > Hello! I would like to migrate my linux (RedHat 7.1) server to FreeBSD. > I am familiar with a lot of unix concepts, but am by no means a guru. I > need some information on how to make this transition as smooth as > possible. > > I think I can handle backing up /home, /var/ftp and /var/www (where my ftp > & httpd files are at) and I've done enough tweaking of apache I will have > no problem transferring that configuration. > > The three things I'm not so sure about are: > 1. my password file > 2. sendmail config and the mail queue > 3. my firewall & NAT rules > > I found this document, which seems to address #1: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=981829+984101+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-questions/20020908.freebsd-questions > > And I found this OpenBSD document that seems to help with installing BSD > on a linux machine (although I'm not sure how helpful it is because I'm > using software RAID on linux): > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.1/i386/INSTALL.linux > > Anyone have any suggestions or links to some useful information? I'd like > to do this transition with a minimal amount of disruption (no lost mail, > no changing of user accounts/passwords.) > > Thanks! > > > -- > > Nicholas?Hart This will by no means answer all of your questions, but it will answer some, and is a good read for any newcomer to FreeBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook #3 is going to be the trickiest item for you. It involves a kernel recompile and converting your ipchains or iptables rulesets over to ipf or ipfw format. Using ipfw/nat is documented very nicely in the handbook however, as is recompiling a kernel. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message