From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 7:17:50 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 27E5737B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (oe33.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB57543E3B for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from default013subscriptions@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:17:48 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [216.228.133.13] From: "default" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: swapping hard drives Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:17:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Oct 2002 14:17:48.0759 (UTC) FILETIME=[F88B9E70:01C275E7] 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 Just a quick question... I have a server running on freebsd 4.1 and want to upgrade to a newer version... BUT I need to keep my server online while I do this. What I want to do is a clean install on the current box that it is running on, and I am hoping that I can swap the hard drive out of the server it is in now, put it in a temporary machine, and if it works it will no longer be needed when the new hard drive is all configured correctly... The main hardware differences between the two are that the current server has: pII 350 processor, Netgear 310TX NIC The temporary machine I am swapping to will have: PII500 processor, and a D-Link NIC Has anyone done this kind of thing before? How well does freebsd react to this kind of change? Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message