Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-08 Thread Carl Johnson
Ruben de Groot writes: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 10:18:21PM -0800, Carl Johnson typed: >> Frank Shute writes: >> >> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> >> > [snip] >> >> >> >> Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s >> >> e

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:34:48 +, David Chanters wrote: > Hi all, > > I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering > if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep "/home" from > my Debian installation. "/home" on Debian is currently a separate > partitio

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 10:18:21PM -0800, Carl Johnson typed: > Frank Shute writes: > > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> > > [snip] > >> > >> Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s > >> ext3 > >> is a problem, but I hope t

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-08 Thread Carl Johnson
Frank Shute writes: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> > [snip] >> >> Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s ext3 >> is a problem, but I hope the rest is helpful. >> > > No, it's not a problem Jerry. ext3 is basically ext2 + j

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > [snip] > > Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s ext3 > is a problem, but I hope the rest is helpful. > No, it's not a problem Jerry. ext3 is basically ext2 + journal, so you can mount it at as

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:34:48PM +, David Chanters wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am > wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep > "/home" from my Debian installation. "/home" on Debian is currently a > separate

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:34:48PM +, David Chanters wrote: > Hi all, > > I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am > wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep > "/home" from my Debian installation. "/home" on Debian is currently a > separate p

Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-07 Thread David Chanters
Hi all, I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep "/home" from my Debian installation. "/home" on Debian is currently a separate partition in its own right, mounted as RXT3. I only have the one hard disk in