From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 8 7:51:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iservern.teligent.se (www.teligent.se [194.17.198.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B6BA14CED for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 07:51:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jakob@teligent.se) Received: from fwse.teligent.se (gateway.teligent.se [192.168.3.254] (may be forged)) by iservern.teligent.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA29603 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:43:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jakob@teligent.se) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:50:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Jakob Alvermark Reply-To: alvermark@teligent.se To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Migrating from 2.2.2 to 3.2 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. I am going to upgrade a FreeBSD server. The old server has 2.2.2 installed and the new one will have 3.2. I want to just copy the files in the home directories, and the users should notice and difference.=20 I think I could just tar the /home, master.passwd and group files onto a DAT tape, and untar it on the new system, but it seems like the standard uids are different on the two versions of FreeBSD. Any hints or suggestions on this kind of operation? TIA, =09Jakob Alvermark ------------------------------------------------------- Teligent AB, P.O. Box 213, S-149 23 Nyn=E4shamn, Sweden =20 Telephone +46-(0)8 520 660 00 * Fax +46-(0)8 520 193 36=20 Direct +46-(0)8 520 660 32 * GSM +46-(0)70 792 16 57 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message