From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 21:51:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C41437B503 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.20.70.64]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000930045048.LJFW1068.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com> for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:50:48 -0700 Message-ID: <39D571DA.FCCDD909@home.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:53:47 -0700 From: xavian anderson macpherson Reply-To: xavian@professional3d.com Organization: http://www.professional3d.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installing freebsd in an existing linux environment X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------2E1B563B070D33F4DEB9A9E3" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------2E1B563B070D33F4DEB9A9E3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i already have over 1700 linux rpms installed on my system. do i have to reformat my existing system, thereby elimnating all of those packages? can the freebsd kernel read a linux ext2-formatted hard disk? i would like to not have to lose all of my existing work! xavian anderson macpherson 503-581-2627 --------------2E1B563B070D33F4DEB9A9E3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i already have over 1700 linux rpms installed on my system.  do i have to reformat my existing system, thereby elimnating all of those packages?  can the freebsd kernel read a linux ext2-formatted hard disk?  i would like to not have to lose all of my existing work!

xavian anderson macpherson
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