From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 10 1: 2:34 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 04B1D37B401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:02:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from netlx010.civ.utwente.nl (netlx010.civ.utwente.nl [130.89.1.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E120743E6E for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:02:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from e.blok@ieee.org) Received: from ieee.org (cal30b034.student.utwente.nl [130.89.164.47]) by netlx010.civ.utwente.nl (8.11.4/HKD) with ESMTP id gAA92RN03516 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:02:27 +0100 Message-ID: <3DCE20A3.1040505@ieee.org> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:02:27 +0100 From: Eelke Blok User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Moving my home server to completely different hardware 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 Hi all, I'm running a home server, which acts as an IP-forwarding machine for my home network, does some webserving, mail, etc. It's currently based on a Pentium 120, but I plan to move it to an AMD Athlon.About the only thing that will remain the same is the hard drive and the two NICs in the machine. What would be my best route? Fresh install? (Eeek, have to install everything all over again). I think it should be possible to just take the hard drive and put in in the new machine, boot a generic kernel and then compile a new kernel for the new hardware, but I'm wondering whether I'm missing something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message