Linux migration

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Thanks for your email. I have already done this, but I was looking more
> >From the perspective of other companies who have done similar, case studies
> type things. Would help me out a great deal with my presentation.
> 
> Also another thing that I was thinking about since my original mail, things
> like chkconfig and commands like say 'service network restart'. Does such a
> thing like a "redhat layer" type project exist so that emgineers who must
> convert to freebsd have as much of the day to day commands available to them
> while retraining?

If you really want to run in RedHat land, then just run RedHat.
FreeBSD has its own tools - some of them with the same or similar name
and some different that will do what you need just fine.  But they won't 
turn FreeBSD in to RedHat.   Probably it will be better.

////jerry

> 
> Higher ups like knowing things will be as smooth as possible and most of the
> inhouse experience is with RHEL so I don't want to end up lumping a lot of
> extra work on the people with freebsd experience...
> 
> Thanks,
>  Wayne
> 
> 
> On 23/03/2006 14:35, "Daniel A." <ldrada at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 3/23/06, Wayne <wayne at nightsol.net> wrote:
> >> Hey Guys,
> >> 
> >> Can anybody point me to some good resources on mingrating from Linux to
> >> FreeBSD?
> >> Since the threads issue which would have had detrimental effects on MySQL on
> >> FreeBSD has been sorted out with FreeBSD 5 we are looking at the possibility
> >> of migrating from RHEL to FreeBSD for our web services.
> >> Does anybody have any links to some good resources on migration from Linux
> >> to FreeBSD, I know google is my friend but I was hoping that some folks on
> >> here might have an idea of 'best of' that I can use for presenting the
> >> case...
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >>  Wayne
> >> 
> >> 
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> > It really depends.
> > If your setup is exotic and complex, I dont think you will ever be
> > able to find a guide. On the other hand, if your setup is simple (eg,
> > PHP+Apache+MySQL, not clustered) then the migration is so simple, you
> > wont even need a guide.
> > 
> > Your best bet is to set up a box with FreeBSD, configure it to your
> > liking, install the software you need, and just simply copy over the
> > configuration files, database files and user files over to the FreeBSD
> > box.
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