From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 30 4:48:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.buckhorn.net (matrix.buckhorn.net [63.151.7.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154A037B66C for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 04:48:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buckhorn.net (nebula.buckhorn.net [63.151.7.242]) by matrix.buckhorn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA37104; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 06:43:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Message-ID: <39D5D2F8.BFB645E6@buckhorn.net> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 06:48:08 -0500 From: Bob Martin Organization: InterNet Unlimited X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: xavian@professional3d.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing freebsd in an existing linux environment References: <39D571DA.FCCDD909@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG xavian anderson macpherson wrote: > > 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 If you are asking if FreeBSD can be loaded on an ex2fs, the answer is no. If you are asking if it can read ext2fs, the answer is yes. To use those RPMS, they would have to be reinstalled under FreeBSD Linux emulation. (Assuming that FreeBSD doesn't already have a port for the program.) Bob Martin -- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message