Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:20:45 -0500 (CDT) From: erich alfred heine <eheine@students.uiuc.edu> To: nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu> Cc: Greg Berenfield <gberenfield@berenfield.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redhat Linux 6.2 -> FreeBSD 4.1.1 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10010251519310.16657-100000@ux11.cso.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <39F72D62.D2F1F12C@telecom.ksu.edu>
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Im not sure if this is even viable, but why not just save the tarball to a zip disk (if its preformated just use -t msdos in linux) and then mount the zip disk once freebsd is installed, and untar the tarball to a freebsd directory? On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, nathan wrote: > i don't know if this is work/personal, and what your budget is.. > but one scenario would be, get new harddrives to install fbsd on. stick your > rh6.2 drives > in, and mount them and move your data over. (fbsd can mount ext2_fs slices) > > if that's not an option, you could do a "man-in-the-middle" scenario > setup ftp/nfs or whatever, move your sources from linux to your newly setup > fbsd box. > then, wipe and install fbsd, and, if necessary, move your sources back. (or > just leave on a nfs partition and mount on each new fbsd setup) > repeating for each of your rh6.2 boxes. > > good luck > nathan > > that's prolly the easiest and cheapest way to do it. > > Greg Berenfield wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > Hoping someone can assist me with converting from rh linux 6.2 to FreeBSD > > 4.1.1 REL. > > > > I'm new to FreeBSD and have only setup a 'new' desktop with it (ok it had > > windows but that doesn't count :). Finally figurered out CVS and have it > > following the 4.1.1 REL path. (was originally a 4.1 REL box) > > > > Since rh 7 has motivated me so well to switch to FreeBSD, I wish to now > > convert my existing rh 6.2 boxes to it. > > My main concern is losing code on these boxes - is there any sort of > > conversion path for ext2 filesystems to FreeBSD's? Or should I simply tar up > > the stuff I wish to have around under FreeBSD and store them safely during > > the conversion? > > > > All comments appreciated. > > Regards, > > Greg B. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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