From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 18:12:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61150106566B for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:12:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Received: from mail.familycareintl.org (mail.familycareintl.org [68.167.21.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FCA48FC17 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:12:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:56:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E97032CD@www.fcimail.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: swapping hardware Thread-Index: AcibNC6srSN+YhagTCyAqJ3Anuu4fg== From: "Jean-Paul Natola" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: swapping hardware 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: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:12:25 -0000 I'm currently running FreeBSD 6.2 on a PIII 550 with 384 of ram and 10 = gig drive- I got my hands a "new" box it's a PIV 1.8 with 1 gig of ram- I was wondering if it were possible to take the hard drive out from the = older machine ( it's a dell dimension) and put it in the new tower- dell = optiplex I know with older windows OS's 9x it would work fine just maybe have to update some drivers, where as with NT 2k XP etc.. it would not. Will this work in the BSD world? Or am I asking for more trouble than = its worth? TIA J