From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 24 16:30:56 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 D4A2316A8AF for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 16:30:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F8E43D62 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 16:30:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.03/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k4OGUopp006625 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 09:30:50 -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 k4OGUkqr027649 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 09:30:50 -0700 Message-ID: <44748A37.6040801@u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:30:47 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44748890.7010301@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <44748890.7010301@u.washington.edu> 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: Re: 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 16:30:57 -0000 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