From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 9:46:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raiden.jasnetworks.net (raiden.jasnetworks.net [65.194.248.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CB237B405 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:46:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from works ([192.168.0.2]) by raiden.jasnetworks.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1LHkwr01323 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:46:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from raiden23@netzero.net) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20020221124658.009845f0@pop.netzero.net> X-Sender: raiden23@pop.netzero.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:52:57 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Lord Raiden Subject: Moving an instalation from one machine to another. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Ok, I'm curious of something. I know how to do this the long and troublesome way, but is there a simple way to take an existing install of FreeBSD and move it from one machine to another of dissimilar hardware configurations? Ok, say I've got 2 machines that I'm working between. Machine A just died. But the HD is fine. Machine B is brand new, but the hardware is entirely different. AKA, Machine A is a K6-2/500 on an Asus board, Machine B is a P3-1ghz on an Intel board. A has 1 gig of ram, B has 2 gigs. Etc. Now, what's going to be the easiest way to just move it between machines and kind of plug and play it right into the second machine without either installing freebsd from scratch on machine b and then trying to copy over all needed files and config everything again, or manually updating all of the settings by hand on the existing install? This would greatly make my day much easier. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message