From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 01:50:16 2004 Return-Path: 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 1528F16A4E6 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:50:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3F243D58 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:50:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rlurman@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f1so37999rne for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:50:15 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=RroXNnla0KlHWVmyveqbxUYYI35Uwk40ek3C4VSAyrLJMbEijX16QYt99Qbj+ot8QcikB9zcl2uhiV0XKmVDV9tlQD7sMIYta858ifArvkGKven9FOqeo9Tuzsgoi21jckws9iW2Fen9pRE+ueV13d1z9SZxFiOUHreTNVbv3+M= Received: by 10.38.102.63 with SMTP id z63mr233131rnb; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:50:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.149.33 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:50:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:50:12 -0500 From: RL To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <41CA22D0.4060104@krisk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41CA2009.5030002@krisk.org> <41CA22D0.4060104@krisk.org> Subject: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: RL List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:50:16 -0000 On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:43:44 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > RL wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > > > >>RL wrote: > >> > >>>Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell > >>>420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a > >>>hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java > >>>and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from > >>>scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes > >>>with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to > >>>clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would > >>>kind of problems and headaches would I have with that? > >>> > >>>Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4. > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>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" > >> > >>I hope you saw that the SC420 is going for under $250 right now! > >>Anyways, you could always try to manually partition the new drive (in > >>the 420) install the bootloader, and then rsync everything over. I have > >>done that many times with FreeBSD and Linux, and as long as you have a > >>kernel that supports the HD controllers on both, you should be fine. A > >>FreeBSD live cd should help, but you don't necessarily need it. > >> > >>-- > >>Kristian Kielhofner > >> > > > > > > Yeah that is about what I got it for (actually over $300.) Now would > > ghosting it (with g4u) work? I'm thinking I might have a lot of > > issues because stuff was compiled for an Athlon and I'm moving to a > > P4. > > Hmm... What did you get in it? Anyways, you could use g4u, but I really > think that the rsync method will be faster and more reliable anyways. > If your binaries have been compiled for Athlon then you could have some > problems on a P4. That is why I compile everything for 686 - I know > that it is going to work no matter what recent processor I put it on, > and I am not much of a believer in "optimizing". > > You could rebuild the system and them portupgrade -aRr (after you > modify /etc/make.conf, of course). > > -- > Kristian Kielhofner > > It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive. I might just start from scratch. I just got a bad feeling I will run into problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my old system. Besides that, I don't have any critical on my old system that I wouldn't mind starting from scratch again.