Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!spock.webnet.com.au!news From: jason@sprint.com.au (Jason Hodges) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Linux -> FreeBSD Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 03:05:02 GMT Organization: Internet Interface Systems Pty. Ltd. (+61 3-95250922) Lines: 15 Message-ID: <486632$m7t@spock.webnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.sprint.com.au X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99b.112 When our new machine arrives I intend to install FreeBSD on it instead of linux which is currently installed. Can anyone reccomend a good way of getting most of the data and configuration across to the FreeBSD machine. It would certainly save a lot of my time if i could salvage a lot of what I have already configure and use it for FreeBSD rather than go through the whole process of setting it up again. I have a spare 1gb drive that I intend to install FreeBSD on which will mean I will still have Linux installed on another 1gb drive. Is it possible to mount the Linux partitions from a 2nd drive while FreeBSD is running and then copy it all across, or is it a matter of backing it all up to tape and then restoring it bit by bit? Any help/suggestions/advice from people who have done the same would be greatly appreciated.