From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 23: 9: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po.monkeybrains.net (rudy-1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.58.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191DD37B789 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 23:09:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rudy@monkeybrains.net) Received: from localhost (rudy@localhost) by po.monkeybrains.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA69387 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 23:11:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rudy@monkeybrains.net) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 23:11:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Rudy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What is the easiest way to convert an old computer? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have some old 486's and Pentiums laying around. I'd like to put FreeBSD on them, but would rather not wait two days for them to run a 'make world'. I would like to take out the hard drives and configure them in a faster, existing FreeBSD box, and then place the drives back in a slower machine. Can I just copy the / and /usr directorys from one disk to another and expect them to work? Is there a web page which outlines this process? Rudy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message