From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 7:44:53 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 2574737B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE71C43E3B for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thanatos@vcnet.com) Received: (qmail 89751 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2002 14:44:45 -0000 Received: from 1-0-401.adsl.vcnet.com (HELO vcnet.com) (209.239.236.203) by mail.vcnet.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 2002 14:44:45 -0000 Message-ID: <3DAECCDD.1040804@vcnet.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:44:45 -0700 From: Thanatos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: default Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: swapping hard drives References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 default wrote: > 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 > > Hello, Yes, I have done this using FreeBSD 4.6.2. I had to update the networking for the different NIC card but everything else just worked. Thanatos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message