From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 6 21:34:25 2002 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 5C6A737B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smudo.emjay.net (pool-151-200-16-61.res.east.verizon.net [151.200.16.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F1A43E65 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:34:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@emjay.net) Received: from localhost (pool-151-200-16-20.res.east.verizon.net [151.200.16.20]) by smudo.emjay.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g874YLds029494 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:34:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:34:20 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Time to step up From: Michael Johnson To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <13F99052-C21B-11D6-BF19-003065966488@emjay.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org So here I sit in my new job with a few alphas running Tru64, one with Linux, about 8 SGI machines, about 25 Mac OS X (BSD based) machines, and a Windows laptop with RedHat as a dual boot. The Windows is something I can do without, but I absolutely have to keep on the laptop. Linux, I can replace with whatever I want. What I want, given the serious push toward BSD based machines, is to put FreeBSD on the laptop. Not a big problem...a lot of people do it. The catch: I want to install it OVER the Linux install. That is, I want to keep the users, passwords, home directories, etc., and get the benefit, and comfort, of BSD. Is this possible, or do I need to just pack up the thought and install fresh over the Linux and recreate all the users? I don't know that saving the /etc/passwd /etc/groups and /etc/shadow files would do it since the systems are different. Would that work? -Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message