ports & packages: problems with fetch

2004-07-26 Thread Brian Sheehan
Hi, I've recently been having problems with the ports/packages system on a newly installed 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD machine. Some port/package installations would fail, making it seem that a large proportion of package repositories where out of date, and that only a small number were up to date. I

Re: Migrating user accounts from linux to freebsd

2004-04-20 Thread Brian Sheehan
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Konrad Heuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Brian Sheehan wrote: I've recently done a fresh installation of freebsd 4.9, and now I want to migrate the user accounts from a redhat 9 machine to the new freebsd machine, and hopefully keep

Migrating user accounts from linux to freebsd

2004-04-08 Thread Brian Sheehan
Hi, I've recently done a fresh installation of freebsd 4.9, and now I want to migrate the user accounts from a redhat 9 machine to the new freebsd machine, and hopefully keep logins and passwords unchanged. Is this possible? Also, what would be the best way to go about moving the users' home