The results of my investigation so far are below:
Filesystem stuff:
- it appears that FreeBSD and OpenBSD use the same partition
table format. Is this true? If so, I can potentially avoid
rebuilding an entire disk if I am right that ...
- FreeBSD can mount and read OpenBSD's version o
Ivan Voras wrote:
Andrew Wright wrote:
If both of these are true, I can simply install FreeBSD over
top of the OpenBSD /, /var and /usr partitions, and then be
able to mount the old /home. Is this something people do?
If you delete everything from all directories except /home, it mig
Andrew Wright wrote:
>
> Hi All;
>
> I want to migrate a system from OpenBSD 4.2 (ie; the current version)
> to FreeBSD (7.0). I have poked around on the archives a little
> to determine how best to do this, and I want to make sure that
> my understanding (summarized below) is indeed correct. I
On Sun 2008-04-20 15:59:14 UTC-0400, Andrew Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> - it appears that FreeBSD and OpenBSD use the same partition
> table format. Is this true? If so, I can potentially avoid
> rebuilding an entire disk if I am right that ...
> - FreeBSD can mount and read
Hi All;
I want to migrate a system from OpenBSD 4.2 (ie; the current version)
to FreeBSD (7.0). I have poked around on the archives a little
to determine how best to do this, and I want to make sure that
my understanding (summarized below) is indeed correct. If I am
asking these questions on t