Cent OS migration

[Walter Vaughan]

scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:

>Okay - the time is approaching where we're going to switch from SCO
>OpenServer to CentOS.
>I have a few questions.
>
>1.  Is there a migration tool that will take all my existing users and
>'import' them as users on CentOS?
>
Yes. Probably easiest to use is the export batch file function in Webmin.
So you would want Webmin on both boxes.

OR learn how to export the accounts from the command line.

REGARDLESS OF HOW EVIL WEBMIN IS.....

You most definately will want to make sure your user id's are identical 
between the two systems,
otherwise stuff like @CB will have wrong information.

http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/indexget.pl?arg=Linux

Has good information.

Also, do you have any expertise maintaing a linux box? If you want 
something closer
to SCO in mentality, FreeBSD and SCO have the same grandparents. Linux 
is like
the cute girl that moved into town. Stuff isn't always where you expect 
to find it,
and you may get a surprise if you reach into the wrong place.

I know it seems evil to support SCO, but you can buy VMware images that will
run on the newest hardware.

http://www.sco.com/products/openserver507v/

may be your cheapest, most reliable solution...