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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: freebsd with bsdi bsd/os spools
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Date: 18 Nov 1996 15:55:19 GMT
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davidb@zeus.anet-chi.com () wrote:
^ would be fine to fill in your real name here, btw.
> Currently, I am using bsdi bsd/os for a server, and I with to switch over
> to freebsd because bsdi doesnt support some hardware I am trying to use.
(Thread moved to c.u.b.freebsd.misc -- i don't think the BSD/OS people
are too much interested in your problem)
> /
> /usr
> /var
> /var/news
> are all on the first disk, and all of my news spools are on other
> disks. I would like to simply swap out the sd0 drive with bsdi, and
> put in freebsd in its place. What do I need to do for freebsd to
> utilize my bsdi partitions on other drives, or do I even need to do
> anything?
It's supposed to work, but you might run into slight problems with
your disklabel, depending on the way your BSD/OS drives are setup.
This is since FreeBSD supports the `slice' paradigm, i.e. it can
handle any and all fdisk disk `slices' including multiple BSD slices
or extended DOS partitions. On the downside, this requires some
basically valid fdisk information in the first sector (except for a
few known legacy configurations).
--
J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j