From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 16:15: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A450637B41A for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:14:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 72890 invoked by uid 100); 22 Feb 2002 00:14:46 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15477.36214.87965.215569@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:14:45 -0600 To: Lord Raiden Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving an instalation from one machine to another. In-Reply-To: <28463160@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) 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 Lord Raiden types: > 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? As richard pointed out, just plugging it in may work. If the kernel boots, you're probably ok. If it doesn't, you may still be able to manage without having to reboot it. Boot either the install CD or the recovery CD, mount your file systems, then build and install GENERIC on your system. Boot that, and customize your kernel as needed. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message