From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 19 17:31: 4 2003 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 5C38E37B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:31:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6EF43ED8 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 16478 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 01:30:54 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Jan 2003 01:30:54 -0000 Message-ID: <3E2B5187.2050205@liwing.de> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 02:31:51 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Hoffman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing over NetBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings. I have a box with NetBSD 1.6 on it that I want to turn into a > FreeBSD box, while retaining the information in the user directories. Is > this possible with the FreeBSD 4.7 install CD-ROM? That is, can I say > during setup "don't reformat or re-partition, but just use the / and > /usr that is already on this disk"? > I do not know anything about such an upgrade, but if you want to hear my opinion, you should backup all data you want to reuse later. This will be all user data (/home/*, /root/* ?), /etc/*, maybe /usr/local/etc/ and some things from /var/ (eg. database dumps) ... Best is, you backup all if you are not sure - better safe than sorry. If you finished to backup all you need to an external source (tape, 2nd computer, cd-r), you can try to boot from FreeBSD 4.7-CD and look if sysinstall detects the labels and is able to use them. You can easily set mount points for everything sysinstall detects without need to format it. But remember: if you merge config files and/or binaries from both systems, they may occur very funny errors. Good luck Jens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message