From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 24 16:23:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C67C16A597 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 16:23:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout7.cac.washington.edu (mxout7.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7FA143D45 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 16:23:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout7.cac.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.03/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k4OGNmcc024677 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 09:23:48 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.50] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.03/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k4OGNirM028567 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 09:23:47 -0700 Message-ID: <44748890.7010301@u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:23:44 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Can drive with 6.1 be directly transferred from one machine to another? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:23:49 -0000 Ok, so the back story is that something hardware-related in my older machine fileserver died, all the info's on a series of SCSI disks, and my other desktop doesn't support SCSI, nor does it have the space for the drives/card (yay for dell), thus I need to either buy replacement parts or buy a new machine (I'm weighing the pros and cons right now). So I was wondering if my disk with all of the compiled binaries for my 1.2 GHz could simply be moved from one machine to another and just work without having to reinstall or recompile FreeBSD or not. I would think that I could just move the drive to another machine and boot from it, given the fact that Intel loves making their instruction sets backwards compatible, but I just need to make sure since I don't want to invest in something more expensive and discover I have to start from square one. Overall, time is of more value to me right now than anything else. Thanks, -Garrett