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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:02:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nicholas Hart <nick@nickhart.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   migration questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209291456190.11429-100000@bunghole.nickhart.com>

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Hello!  I would like to migrate my linux (RedHat 7.1) server to FreeBSD.  
I am familiar with a lot of unix concepts, but am by no means a guru.  I 
need some information on how to make this transition as smooth as 
possible.

I think I can handle backing up /home, /var/ftp and /var/www (where my ftp 
& httpd files are at) and I've done enough tweaking of apache I will have 
no problem transferring that configuration.

The three things I'm not so sure about are:
1. my password file
2. sendmail config and the mail queue
3. my firewall & NAT rules

I found this document, which seems to address #1: 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=981829+984101+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-questions/20020908.freebsd-questions

And I found this OpenBSD document that seems to help with installing BSD 
on a linux machine (although I'm not sure how helpful it is because I'm 
using software RAID on linux): 
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.1/i386/INSTALL.linux

Anyone have any suggestions or links to some useful information?  I'd like 
to do this transition with a minimal amount of disruption (no lost mail, 
no changing of user accounts/passwords.)

Thanks!


-- 

Nicholas Hart
nick@nickhart.com
http://www.nickhart.com

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the
American public."
							-- H L Mencken



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