From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 13:53:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EAF1B37C136 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:52:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 2406 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 20:52:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 20:52:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 1543 invoked by uid 211); 7 Jul 2000 20:52:06 -0000 Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 02:22:06 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Paul McDonald Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migration to Red Hat Message-ID: <20000708022206.C1136@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <003d01bfe840$3bcaf150$9ba965d1@sales7.eni.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <003d01bfe840$3bcaf150$9ba965d1@sales7.eni.net>; from pmcdonald@epoch.net on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 01:21:55PM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I was wondering if a site is currently running FreeBSD and switches to Red > Hat how tough of a move is this? Depends on what the site is doing. In any case you'll have to do a total reinstall, including repartitioning and reformatting -- linux can't use a UFS partition (at least, not reliably in r/w mode) and requires several DOS-style partitions, rather than subpartitioning a single DOS partition like UFS does. What are your reasons for switching? FreeBSD does a very good job of running linux binaries, so that can't be it? You should also ask on a redhat list. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message