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Subject: Re: swapping hardware
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>
> 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

in FreeBSD kernel drives the hardware. if anything has to be changed - it 
will be kernel config.

and possibly network device names in /etc/*