Re: OpenBSD -> FreeBSD migration

2008-04-23 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
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

Re: OpenBSD -> FreeBSD migration

2008-04-21 Thread Andrew Wright
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

Re: OpenBSD -> FreeBSD migration

2008-04-21 Thread Ivan Voras
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

Re: OpenBSD -> FreeBSD migration

2008-04-20 Thread andrew clarke
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