From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 15: 3: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9BA37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bunghole.nickhart.com (ip254.usw5.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.249.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791CF43E42 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:02:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@nickhart.com) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by bunghole.nickhart.com (8.11.6/linuxconf) with ESMTP id g8TM2sO11442 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:02:54 -0700 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:02:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Hart To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: migration questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message