From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 19 14:23:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25915 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darwin.snowmoon.com (ts2p17.wizvax.net [204.97.162.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25894 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:23:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: from localhost (jaime@localhost) by darwin.snowmoon.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA10185 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:30:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jaime@darwin.snowmoon.com) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:28:17 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime Reply-To: jaime@snowmoon.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About.. In-Reply-To: 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 On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Robert wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Alejandro Salcedo wrote: > > Hi Freebsd friends !! > > My question is : If I change the mother board in my computer, do I have > > to re-install freebsd ?? > > No. FreeBSD is on your hard drive. If you are using the same hard drive on > your new MB, you should be fine. Don't forget that IDE hard drives will experience some problems when moving from one BIOS to another. I just recently replaced my MB and had to reinstall on my 5.1GB drive but not my 1.2GB drive. In fact, the new mainboard had the same kind of BIOS. Fortunately, it only had system data and backups on it. As a caveat to this, I was able to access my old drive by simply rewriting my partition table and disk label and boot manager. But this only lasted for one boot up. After a reboot, this ability left. SCSI drives do not appear to have this limitation. So if you're running SCSI, and intend to keep your SCSI card, don't worry. For IDEs, look in the handbook for directions about using tar to dump your drive to a stack of floppies. (I once put 75-85MB of files onto 20-30 disks. Its a cool trick.) > Also, please make sure your "To:" line is to "freebsd-questions". Many of > us use filtering programs. Oops. I've been screwing that up myself. Sorry. Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message