From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Sep 8 4:40:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8267F37B400 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 04:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piranha.bsdsi.com (b065199.adsl.hansenet.de [62.109.65.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D5143E42 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 04:40:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mm@piranha.bsdsi.com) Received: (from mm@localhost) by piranha.bsdsi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id g88Bel7k000550 for newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 13:40:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mm) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Martin Moeller To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to step up Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 13:40:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <13F99052-C21B-11D6-BF19-003065966488@emjay.net> In-Reply-To: <13F99052-C21B-11D6-BF19-003065966488@emjay.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200209081340.47120.mm@bsdsi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----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