From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 18:22:08 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 03DAF106564A for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:22:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from rosebud.otenet.gr (rosebud.otenet.gr [195.170.0.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67EE28FC12 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:22:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (athedsl-161439.home.otenet.gr [85.75.174.61]) by rosebud.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m3AILxlo012971; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:22:00 +0300 Message-ID: <47FE5ADA.40509@otenet.gr> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:22:18 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean-Paul Natola References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E97032CD@www.fcimail.org> In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E97032CD@www.fcimail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 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 18:22:08 -0000 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > 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 > > Unless you've done something really *weird* with the kernel, it should work just fine. The Windows (2K/NT/XP) problem of booting in new hardware is caused by not having the specific IDE / ATA drivers installed. The FreeBSD ATA driver is in the kernel and can handle a long list of different PATA/SATA controllers. One thing that may change (and may cause you some trouble) is the device name (eg from ad0 to ad2), depending on the controller / channel you connect the new disk but this can easily be fixed in /etc/fstab You will of course have to reconfigure other changed devices, like sound cards, X -if the video card is different -, and network.