From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 29 23:51:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA14259 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 23:51:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA14252 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 23:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA20168; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 09:51:33 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03382; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 09:25:23 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970330092523.BX24584@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 09:25:23 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: irq@stepahead.net (interrupt request), michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Subject: Re: Switching to FreeBSD References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Michael Hancock on Mar 30, 1997 12:47:28 +0900 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Hancock wrote: > FreeBSD passwords aren't in /etc/passwd, they're in a db. You need to > repartition, ... You don't need to repartition completely. FreeBSD can use the ext2fs from Linux. I think your / and /usr filesystems must be of type UFS, but if you've got more filesystems (i haven't saved your mail thus don't know the disk layout), you should be able to reuse them. Note that FreeBSD has a different opinion about partitions and slices. RT{FAQ,handbook}. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)