Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:30:47 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can drive with 6.1 be directly transferred from one machine to another? Message-ID: <44748A37.6040801@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <44748890.7010301@u.washington.edu> References: <44748890.7010301@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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 Another valid question I suppose is whether or not I can move the machine from a box with a Celeron CPU to one with an AMD CPU (not sure if vendors matter even though ISAs are the same). -Garrett
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