Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 13:40:35 +0200 From: Martin Moeller <mm@bsdsi.com> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to step up Message-ID: <200209081340.47120.mm@bsdsi.com> In-Reply-To: <13F99052-C21B-11D6-BF19-003065966488@emjay.net> References: <13F99052-C21B-11D6-BF19-003065966488@emjay.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 7. September 2002 06:34 schrieb Michael Johnson: > I want to install it OVER the Linux install. That is, I want to keep > the users, passwords, home directories, etc., and get the benefit, and > comfort, of BSD. > > Is this possible, or do I need to just pack up the thought and install > fresh over the Linux and recreate all the users? I don't know that > saving the /etc/passwd /etc/groups and /etc/shadow files would do it > since the systems are different. Would that work? > Hi Michael, I don't think you'll be successful with this. BSD and Linux are using different filesystems and I haven't heard of a possibilty to install Free= BSD on ext2/3 or whatever. Besides, the file hierarchy is sort of different. - -- Martin Moeller mm at bsdsi.com || mmoeller at sourceforge.net http://www.bsdsi.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9ezc8t/yBbDyXkoURAnccAJ0Yt1USEOKZeeAyN6O5lKRYmhJL7ACdGx0z eJ9WGwNFqfMacZx0b1Nu11s=3D =3Djfnu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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