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Subject: Re: Can drive with 6.1 be directly transferred from one machine to
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Garrett Cooper wrote:

>    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.

Mostly yes.
You might encounter problems if:
_ the kernel you have been using doesn't have the module for some of 
your new hardware (did you build a custom kernel?);
_ you compiled your system with a specific CPUTYPE and your new CPU does 
not match that;
_ your disks are going to have a new name on your new system;
_ ...

These are almost always easily solved, but watch especially out for the 
CPUTYPE thing.

  bye
	av.