From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 18:29:04 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 1FA4F1065673 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:29:04 +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 CEE3C8FC1C for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:29:03 +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 14:29:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E97032CF@www.fcimail.org> In-Reply-To: <47FE5ADA.40509@otenet.gr> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: swapping hardware Thread-Index: AcibN8fzckm/LmL4SvyByjxv5o8RaAAAHOgg From: "Jean-Paul Natola" To: "Manolis Kiagias" 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 18:29:04 -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 > > =20 Unless you've done something really *weird* with the kernel, it should=20 work just fine. The Windows (2K/NT/XP) problem of booting in new=20 hardware is caused by not having the specific IDE / ATA drivers=20 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=20 may cause you some trouble) is the device name (eg from ad0 to ad2),=20 depending on the controller / channel you connect the new disk but this=20 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Believe me , I wish I knew how to do something weird with the kernel- = I'm still wet behind the ears in BSD land. This machine , believe it or not = , I use a mail filter server- BSD/CLAM/SA and EXIM- and I only putty into = it- no X no video nada- but it should* recognize and install the drivers = for the video and nic? that is my main concern=20