From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 05:05:40 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 A9A2116A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:05:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from S2.cableone.net (smtp2.cableone.net [24.116.0.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F8443D2D for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:05:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net (unverified [24.119.123.89]) by S2.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S2) with ESMTP id 5205794 for multiple; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:22:25 -0700 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:04:38 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox To: RL Message-ID: <20041222230438.47b49bbc@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.13 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 1, First 16, in=30, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.119.123.89 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:05:40 -0000 On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:27:18 -0500 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. Well there are a few problems and a few possible problems. If you move the drive another machine and it's place is changed, you will need to edit /etc/fstab. This is easy to do though. The big problem comes in if you compiled any tihng AMD specific into any thing. If you just left it at the default settings or set it to 686 or the like, you should be fine. For copying just look at dd. If moving to a different size of drive, just create the partitions, mount them, and then copy the stuff over. What problem you running into with java? No clue about g4unix since I've never heard of it before. I would just do as I mentioned above.