From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 29 07:47:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA01002 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 07:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from stepahead.net (stepahead.net [205.161.119.233]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA00997 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 07:47:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (irq@localhost) by stepahead.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA10602 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 10:46:58 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 10:46:56 -0500 (EST) From: interrupt request To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Switching to FreeBSD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am switching to FreeBSD 2.1.7 from Red Hat Linux 4.1....is there some sort of an easy way of doing this? Or do I have to completely repartition and reformat? And, if so, I am running shadow on my current system. Does FreeBSD come shadowed? If so, is it compatible with my /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? Thank you.... -------------------------------------------------\ The Collective \ /-----\ | | irq | || | \-----/ || //==== | || // | /----\ ||// /===========\ | | | ||/ | interrupt | | | | || | request | | | | || | | | | | || | /\ | | | | || | \ \ | | \----/ || \======\=\==/ | \ \ | http://www.collective.org \/ | "We make the things that make communcations free" | --== interrupt request ==-- | / ================================================/