Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:14:43 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@tcbug.org> To: Dan MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving HDD with FreeBSD installed between machines with different hardware. Message-ID: <20040629201443.GC2103@ns1.tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABMEJDCOAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net> References: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABMEJDCOAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net>
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<snip> > I would like to rebuild the machine completely to exercise the knowledge I > have gained re: FreeBSD but I can't afford for it to be down for the length > of time it would take and I don't have a standby machine available. So what > I'm thinking is that I could take a spare hard drive home and pop it in one > of my own machines, install FreeBSD on that, and then bring it back to work > and swap the hard drive out with the one in the production machine. > > What kind of problems am I letting myself in for if I go ahead with this? > The hardware in the two machines in question is quite dissimilar. For > example, one's an Athlon 266 with 64MB of RAM, one's a Pentium[-something] > 300 with 400 MB. > > Here are the things that occurred to me: > > One of them has an 'rl0' NIC, the other 'dc0'. So I'd have to change the > ifconfig_ line in /etc/rc.conf. But would this also imply changes elsewhere > that would have to be made? > > Actually, that's all I've thought of so far. Are there any gotchas I should > be considering? > > -- > Danny MacMillan > There shouldn't be a problem if you install and run GENERIC on one machine and then transplant that machine's hard-drive to another machine. /etc/rc.conf is one area to beware of, another would be ipfw/ipf having rules based on interfaces. Something tells me you'll want to have a copy of /etc/fstab available, but I can't for the life of me think why. Josh Paetzel
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