From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 9 03:51:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0667116A404 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 03:51:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cruzweb@gmail.com) Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [63.240.77.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9861843D45 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 03:51:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cruzweb@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.42.11] (c-68-61-214-252.hsd1.mi.comcast.net[68.61.214.252]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <200604090351250140085ltqe>; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 03:51:25 +0000 Message-ID: <443884BE.7040700@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:51:26 -0400 From: John Cruz Organization: Cruz Web Development User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: je killen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: swapping out mb and cpu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: john@cruzweb.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 03:51:32 -0000 As far as I know, as long as your drive configuration is the the same (/root on ide0 disk 1 would be ide0 disk 1 on the new machine as well) then it should work without a hitch. I'll be upgrading my machine in the near future as well, so any insight on this is much apprecaited. -John je killen wrote: > Hello; > I have a machine running with FreeBSD 6.0 running on AMD64 socket 754 > and Elite Group motherboard. It has been up and running without > problem continuously for about 5 weeks now (although I am the only one > connecting to it at present). I have purchased > a new mother board and cpu. The new mb is Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI and the > new cpu is Athlon 64 socket 939. It has extended PCI slots and I am > planning on swapping the FreeBSD installation to the new motherboard > and processor. If I just move the hard drives > and SCSI adapter to the new machine will it run on the different > motherboard and processor? Or do I have to install FreeBSD > specifically on the new machine? > The reason I'm considering this is because the AMD64 754 machine has > a SCSI adapter made for an extended PCI slot. > The mb has only standard PCI slots so the adapter isn't being used > optimally. So I would be swapping the main drive (ata) and two SCSI > drives (assigned usr and var partitions, respectively), as well as the > adapter. > Is this possible? > Thanks in advance; > JK > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >