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Subject: Re: FreeBSD & BSDI - disk compatibility... (fwd)
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 11:18:47 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <17757.822216470@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 21, 96 01:27:50 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>
> Well, yeah, you could always just reinstall FreeBSD in place of BSD/OS
> in the same partitions, but is that what was meant here?

Well, now you come to ask the question, I'm not sure.  I interpreted
it to mean that he wanted to access BSD/OS partitions from FreeBSD.
Maybe that wasn't the original intention.  I know that the file
systems are similar enough to be accessible under some
circumstances--for example, I can mount BSD/OS 2.x floppies on a
FreeBSD system, but not on a BSD/386 1.x system :-) -- but I don't
know if there aren't certain problems, like the device node structures
and such.  Any takers?

Greg


>> Skip Montanaro writes:
>>> From owner-bsdi-users@hidden-foes.gateway.com Mon Jan 15 01:53:09 1996
>>> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 23:03:16 -0500
>>> From: Skip Montanaro <skip@automatrix.com>
>>> Message-Id: <199601150403.XAA03468@dolphin.automatrix.com>
>>> To: bsdi-users@BSDI.COM
>>> Subject: FreeBSD & BSDI - disk compatibility...
>>> Reply-to: skip@calendar.com (Skip Montanaro)
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>>>
>>> I'd like to experiment with FreeBSD.  I have two 1-gig SCSI disks on my PC
>>> and I run BSDI 2.0 on them.  Can FreeBSD use my existing BSDI partitions or
>>> will I have to repartition my disks?  I checked the list archives but didn'
> t
>>> see this topic discussed.