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From: lbill@u1.abs.net (Bill Larduskey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Converting from Unixware to BSD...
Date: 4 Aug 1996 04:34:49 GMT
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Sean Rolinson (snowdog@charm.net) wrote:
: We have BSD/OS 2.1...

: What would be the best way to convert the Unixware 1.1.2  'vxfs'
: filesystems to BSD's ufs?  We have a 2  2Gig drives with several home
: directories on them.  I am wondering if it is possible to mount those
: drives in the BSD system?  And if not, what would be an alternative??

: rcp?

Well, first off glad to see Charm Net's going to upgrade. 
But to the problem.  You could do something as simple as mounting
the drives under NFS.  You could back them up to tape using
cpio under UnixWare, then use pax to bring it in ( see the cpio script 
in the /sco/bin directory in BSDI 2.1 ).  Or you could archive the
data into single files, then ftp it over ( be sure to pull, not push
the data files.)