From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 18:49:23 2002 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 969E137B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B2443E0A for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:49:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (hutch-856.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.184]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA10838257 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:49:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EB9F638CC; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:47:29 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:47:29 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: Mike Woods Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving Machines Message-ID: <20020702204729.A291@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: <3D224D9F.000005.00524@MegaLord> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3D224D9F.000005.00524@MegaLord>; from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk on Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:04:31AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:04:31AM +0100, Mike Woods wrote: > Right, i've got me a nice little fileserver running freebsd 4.4-release, > works perfectly, only thing is i've filled it up and thus needed a new case > (rackmount stuff) found a nice 4u case, and now i have a new machine to go > in it, my question is with regards to moving the whole thing across from one > machine to the other, can i simply re-install the generic kernel and moves > the drives across or am i gonna have to mess around a bit ? > > Mike Woods You'll find that FreeBSD doesn't make the suicide pact with your hardware that some other more popular Operating Systems do. Usually when I move drives from one hardware config to another I just build the kernel I am going to need in advance, taking in account the cpu type, nic, scsi controllers and so forth. Installing GENERIC would be pretty much the same thing, except you'll want to compile a custom kernel after the move most likely. In simpler terms, switching mainboards on FreeBSD isn't a traumatic ordeal. ;) Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message