From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 12:45:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C340216A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxsf10.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf10.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E826043FE0 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:45:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ralphdewitt@charter.net) Received: from 192.168.2.100 (66-214-31-61.lb-cres.charterpipeline.net [66.214.31.61])hABKdFL1050816; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:39:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ralphdewitt@charter.net) From: "Ralph F. De Witt" To: Evermore_BSD Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:40:06 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311110440.06926.ralphdewitt@charter.net> cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preinstall Questions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ralphdewitt@charter.net List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:45:30 -0000 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:31 am, Evermore_BSD wrote: > > Hi: > > I have two questions before I plunge in and make my first FreeBSD > > install. Normally I keep a back up copy of all my data in a ReiserFS > > formated partion on my hard drive. When I do a Linux Distribution install > > I will reformat the non back up partions and then restore my data by > > copying from the backup partion. Will I be able to do this with my > > FreeBSD install? Will FreeBSD be able to mount and read write data from > > this Linux Reiserfs formated partion? My second question is hardware > > related. Is the Logitech 4000 Pro USB Web camera supported in FreeBSD? > > Thanks very much for your help. > > - -- > > Ralph > > 1. You will need to format the backup partition as Ext2, FreeBSD cannot > mount a ReiserFS partition. However it handles Ext2 (read and write) > just fine. In case you are wondering Ext3 should also work since it's > just Ext2 with a journal attached, but stick with Ext2 because you never > know. Evermore_BSD: Thankyou for your response. After I sent the email, I went out and bought a copy of Teach yourself FreeBSD in 24 hours. Reading that I got the impression that it had to be a EXT2 partition. So I moved the data around to reformat the partition to EXT2, I killed my system, but managed to save the data in a EXT2 partiton. So I jumped in to the install and have run up into my knowledge barrier and lack there off. I am wondering if you could help with my two most pressing problems. Now that I have FreeBSD installed, How do I find out what the EXT2 partition is called so that I can get it mounted and get the data restored so that I can stop drowning in my email? My other problem is with the networking. When I try to run cvsup I get the following error: unkitty# cvsup /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? When I configured the network. I configured for DHCP and then filled in the machine name unkitty as host and filled in a fictitous ralphfdewitt.org as domain. The machine connects to the internet through a cable/dsl router and then through a cable modem to the internet. Mail and Browsing works so I am at a lost as to what may be wrong. Thanks for your past help. I hope that you can get me sorted out so that I can get some breathing room to be able to read and sort the other little problems out. Ralph