Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:40:06 -0800 From: "Ralph F. De Witt" <ralphdewitt@charter.net> To: Evermore_BSD <evermore_bsd@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preinstall Questions? Message-ID: <200311110440.06926.ralphdewitt@charter.net>
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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
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