On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:02:53PM -0700, Nicholas Hart wrote: > > Hello! I would like to migrate my linux (RedHat 7.1) server to FreeBSD. > I am familiar with a lot of unix concepts, but am by no means a guru. I > need some information on how to make this transition as smooth as > possible. > > I think I can handle backing up /home, /var/ftp and /var/www (where my ftp > & httpd files are at) and I've done enough tweaking of apache I will have > no problem transferring that configuration. > > The three things I'm not so sure about are: > 1. my password file > 2. sendmail config and the mail queue > 3. my firewall & NAT rules > > I found this document, which seems to address #1: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=981829+984101+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-questions/20020908.freebsd-questions > > And I found this OpenBSD document that seems to help with installing BSD > on a linux machine (although I'm not sure how helpful it is because I'm > using software RAID on linux): > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.1/i386/INSTALL.linux > > Anyone have any suggestions or links to some useful information? I'd like > to do this transition with a minimal amount of disruption (no lost mail, > no changing of user accounts/passwords.) > > Thanks! > > > -- > > Nicholas?Hart
This will by no means answer all of your questions, but it will answer some, and is a good read for any newcomer to FreeBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook #3 is going to be the trickiest item for you. It involves a kernel recompile and converting your ipchains or iptables rulesets over to ipf or ipfw format. Using ipfw/nat is documented very nicely in the handbook however, as is recompiling a kernel. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
